The weekend of 6/8 May
The HRA and the church will be organising events over the coronation weekend.
This page will be updated as plans become firmer but so far:
Saturday 6th May
All in St Peter’s Church, Horningsea
- Live streaming of the Coronation on a large screen in the church from first thing until the appearances on the balcony of Buckingham Palace. Drop in for part of the day (or stay all day if you like). Refreshments will be available all day
- Exhibition of books about the royal family collected by Vee over the last 80 years.
- Exhibition of photographs of Royal occasions in the village since 1953
- Horningsea Coronation mugs will be available to distribute to Horningsea children and to sell.
Sunday 7th May
Special Coronation Service
St Peter’s Church, Horningsea
- Special Coronation Service at 10:30 in St Peter’s church
Picnic and Ceilidh
Village Green, Horningsea
Come and celebrate the historic occasion of the Kings Coronation with a party on the village green on Sunday 7th May. Horningsea Residents Association (HRA) invite you to join your friends and neighbours on the village green from 3pm.
Please bring your own picnic and maybe a cake to share and join us to celebrate this special day. HRA will be supplying beer and fizz and organising a Ceilidh which will start about 5PM, dancing is optional and a great way to burn off a few calories and enjoy yourself! Stay late to party the night away with the beacon lighting at dusk.- Picnic on the village green from 15:00 until late
- BYO food
- Prosecco and barrels of beer – free to villagers Stomp Happy Ceilidh, two to three sets throughout the evening from 17:00
- Beacon lighting at dusk
- Display of the village photo – Everyone In the village photographed ahead of the day and presented on one large picture to be hung in the village hall.
Monday 8th May
- At 11:00 the bell ringers will “Ring for the King” – come and watch or sit in your garden and listen!
- At 14:00 the Friends of Horningsea church invite you to volunteer to work on a wildlife project in the churchyard. It is hoped that we can do enough conservation work to apply for a Bronze medal. Tasks will include making signs showing where our bug hotel is based, making a hover fly lagoon, checking our churchyard is hedgehog friendly with drinking areas, noting the spring flowers and early summer flowers growing at the margins…. And looking for bugs, butterflies, bees, birds, bats and anything else beginning with “b”!
- cleanup
During the weekend
- Bells will Ring for the King at some point over the weekend
