Chiswick Church and Pub Join Forces for Jubilee Singalong
Residents invited to celebrate 70 years of the Queen's reign
St Michael & All Angels Church Hall
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St Michael & All Angels and The Tabard have got together to hold a special celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
They are jointly inviting residents along to the ‘The Big Jubilee Sing: 70 Years of Songs’ where they can join in with some of the best-loved songs of her reign.
The event will take place on the afternoon of Saturday 4 June on the piazza and lawn outside St Michael & All Angels Parish Hall. Singers will be provided with song sheets and there will be a band and an outdoor bar.
Fr Kevin Morris, the vicar of St Michael & All Angels, and John Higginson, landlord of The Tabard, said, “We’re inviting everyone to sing some of the most popular songs of the Queen’s reign, from the 1950s to the 2020s. And we hope lots of people will help us choose which ones to sing!”
‘The Big Jubilee Sing’ has been scheduled to run from 4.30 to 5.45pm so as not to clash with any ‘Big Lunch’ street parties taking place on the Saturday and Sunday of the Jubilee weekend.
People are invited to send their suggestions of songs from each decade to Newsletter@smaaa.org.uk. They can download a form if they wish at www.smaaa.org.uk.
The Tabard pub
The last time St Michael’s and The Tabard came together for a royal event was in 2011 for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Over 40 couples took part in a service reaffirming their wedding vows, followed by drinks at the Tabard. Ten of the couples had been married for over 40 years, and seven for over 20 - helping celebrate more than 800 years of marriage in total.
Couples celebrating with their families on the Royal Wedding Day in 2011
The Arts & Crafts church and pub face each other on Bath Road W4, two minutes' walk from Turnham Green tube station. They were designed in the late 1870s by the influential architect Richard Norman Shaw, as focal points of Bedford Park, the world’s first garden suburb.
Both buildings were praised by John Betjeman, who was the first patron of the Bedford Park Society. You can read more about the history of the area on the Bedford Park Society web site and on this link.
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April 19, 2022
