A STREET party with jugglers, games and lashings of afternoon tea will be thrown to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday.

Traders in Trinity Street, Colchester, are getting their heads together to plan an old-fashioned street party for May 15, where everyone can pull up a chair to enjoy music and entertainment, along with food and drink from stalls in the street.

There will be a fancy dress competition with the theme of ‘Queen for a day’, and staff at Tymperleys hope to stoke up the barbecue in their garden.

It is hoped other traders, including the Art Cafe, Cafe 21, GO4 Market Cafe, Timbers, Poppy’s Tea Room and the Purple Dog will also set up stalls.

The party, which organiser, Alice Charrington, hopes will be “like a village fete in the street”, looks set to take place from around 11am to 5pm.

Trinity Traders are in talks with Colchester Council about applying for a road block for the day.

Miss Charrington, manager at Tymperleys, said: “I’m really excited for people to come and have some food and a bit of fancy dress.

“It would be a lot of fun.

“I work with Trinity Traders, which includes most of the businesses in Trinity Street, and we have decided it will a really good plan to have a street party. All the traders at our latest meeting were unanimous with the idea.”

She added: “Although businesses will be open as normal, we will run stalls outside and hopefully we will have some musicians playing, perhaps a juggler and someone on stilts.

“We have a real range and variety of businesses in Trinity Street and we want every single one of us to get involved somehow.”

Miss Charrington insisted Trinity Street was the best place for a party thanks to the community spirit of its occupants.

She said: “We have been working together as a street for over a year.

“We organise the flowers on our street, we won Best Street at Colchester In Bloom, we did the Halloween history tours and had more than 60 people involved in the Heritage Open Days.

“We work together to make our street far more interesting and draw more people down here.

“We are a pretty good gang and get on very well.”

If you are a musician or entertainer and want to get involved, call Tymperleys on 01206 765034.