This pack contains documents and photographs illustrating the celebrations in Somerset on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee 2 June 1897.

There are posters (click for example) advertising the celebrations at Cannington and a programme of events at Chewton Mendip. There are photographs of street decorations in Crewkerne and a dinner in Minehead. Children were given Jubilee mugs or medals and there is a photograph of these and one of a class of children wearing their medals. Extracts from school log books show that the children were given a holiday from school, some marched in procession through the streets, others were given tea. Newspaper accounts of the celebrations describe church services, street decorations, bonfires, fireworks, sports and entertainments. There are references to parishes erecting permanent memorials such as church clocks, statues of the Queen, public seats and village halls