DESPITE showers, worshippers turned out in force to pay tribute to the Queen at an open-air jubilee service.
Held in Croft Gardens, at Hartlepool's Headland, and organised by Churches Together, the service was led by the Reverend Peter Kashouris, from nearby St Hilda's Church.
In the event of bad weather, the service was to be held in St Hilda's Church, but the rain held off for the 30-minute service and young and old alike joined together to pay their respects to the Queen.
The service began with a hymn of thanksgiving and a procession around the perimeter of the gardens.
Each person carried either a Bible, a vessel of oil or a spoon for anointing, a towel and a bowl of water, and a bell.
The items were symbolic of the Queen's time on the throne. At her coronation she was presented with a Bible; central to the coronation was the anointing of the Queen; and the bell summons people of all nations and languages to worship God.
Leader of Hartlepool Borough Council, Councillor Carl Richardson, read a reading from the Book of Micah.
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