TROWBRIDGE well and truly put out all the stops to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday yesterday as hundreds of people attended events across the town.

The celebrations were kicked off by town crier Trevor Heeks who paid homage to the Queen’s Birthday with a celebratory ‘cry’ at the midday ringing of St James’ Church bells.

Gathering a crowd in Fore Street, Mr Heeks said: “Oyez, oyez, oyez. On behalf of the town mayor, councillors and all the good people of Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire.

“We all wish your majesty Queen Elizabeth a very happy 90th birthday.

“We wish you good health and happiness for the years ahead.”

While in St James’ Church, well-wishers were invited to admire a whole collection of arrangements in a flower festival.

With the walls adorned with arrangements, Janet Mason, who is a flower arranger, said the collection took the group around ten hours to complete.

“We’ve made sure that each flower arrangement has a photo incorporated to show different stages of her life,” she said.

“There’s a team of about eight of us who have done the arrangements and this is the fifth year we have held a flower festival and each year we have a different theme. Last year it was around the Magna Carta and Henry De Bohun and we used similar colours so we have been able to reuse some flowers this year.”

The group also sent the Queen a card filled with pictures of their floral efforts.

Pastor at Yarnbrook Chapel, Andrew Jones organised a tea party which the whole village was invited to.

“We had about 25 people come altogether which was a good turnout and everyone thoroughly enjoyed the tea party where we had so many cakes,” he said.

Schools across Trowbridge also got into the celebratory spirit with Larkrise holding a special street party lunch for pupils.

Pupils at Castle Mead had even sent cards to the Queen before taking this picture, creating the number 90 on the playground.