LONDON may have been at the centre of the weekend’s nationwide Platinum Jubilee celebrations, but you didn’t have to look very far for evidence of how Helensburgh and Lomond got in to the party spirit.

From beacons, pipes and choirs on Thursday night to community parties on Saturday afternoon, the Queen’s 70-year reign was marked across the area with plenty of enthusiasm.

Highlights included an outdoor performance on Thursday evening by the Peninsula Choir, joined by members of the Tartan Harmony a capella group and the Helensburgh Dorian Choir, singing the anthem A Life Lived With Grace, specially composed to mark the occasion, before a beacon was lit opposite Cove Burgh Hall.

At the same time, local pipers Colin Lawrie and Andrew Crockett were also in musical action, playing another special Jubilee composition, Stuart Liddell’s pipe tune Diu Regnare, along with 1,700 registered pipers around the world.

And as beacons were lit across the UK and the Commonwealth, the 1st Helensburgh Scouts got in on the action with a special ‘floating fire’, launched from the group’s camp site at Arden on the west bank of Loch Lomond.

On Friday, youngsters from Helensburgh Amateur Swimming Club got in on the act with a ‘swim 70 lengths’ challenge at Helensburgh Swimming Pool, followed by a spelling out of the number 70 in the pool using swim aids.

Among the communities across the country who celebrated with special street parties were residents of Cove and Kilcreggan, at Craigrownie Park, and of Malcolm Place in Churchill - and with the sun shining down on whe whole country there were plenty of members of the public soaking up the unique atmosphere of the weekend.

Our thanks to everyone who took pictures from the weekend’s events and who sent them in - we hope you enjoy the results here and on the next few pages!