We have a long tradition of holding parties to celebrate Royal occasions.

Next weekend, weather permitting, hundreds of people in Oxfordshire will close their streets, set up tables, lay out food and drink and celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Others will mark the occasion with parties in schools and halls.

It was just the same, of course, at the start of the Queen’s memorable reign.

This picture was taken at a Coronation party at Greyfriars’ Roman Catholic Primary School in Iffley Road, Oxford, in 1953.

With plenty of balloons and happy faces, everyone was clearly having a good time.

The picture comes from Wendy Buckingham, of Oliver Road, Cowley.

Then Wendy Nash, she is the baby in the arms of her mother, Mercy, in the top right corner of the photograph.

Her older sister, Linda, is the girl furthest right in the front row holding a balloon.

Mrs Buckingham recognises two other children in the picture – Johnnie Penders with his dark-haired sister, Kiki, in the second row from the front.

It wasn’t only the children who were in celebratory mood – note the Union flag displayed in the window of the house in the background.

Look out for more pictures celebrating the Coronation and other Royal events in the Queen’s reign in next week’s Memory Lane.