ROYAL WEDDING – THE STREET PARTY

Speaking for myself, I was pretty much Royal Wedding’d out by the time the Happy Couple had driven round Windsor and returned to the castle.

Wilson, though, is made of sterner stuff – he, Byron and Nërp erected some trestles in front of the house and proceeded to organise a Street Party, loading the table with leftover food from The Happy Ant Diner – some of it still in date!
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For those of you who may not know what a Street Party is, at times of great national celebration residents set up tables and chairs in their street and lay on a free party for everyone – particularly children.

This may be what Americans refer to as a Block Party – I don't know.

I thought they started after the end of World Was II, but they apparently date back quite a bit earlier than that:
http://www.streetparty.org.uk/history.aspx