HAVING celebrated her 96th birthday last month, the Queen and the rest of the UK are gearing up to mark her platinum jubilee.

With a four-day bank holiday weekend to look forward to at the beginning of June, party planning and street party organising is already in hand in some Warrington neighbourhoods, schools and workplaces.

Queen Elizabeth, who is the longest reigning monarch in British history, will mark 70 years on the throne, after her succession in 1952 and coronation in 1953.

To mark the occasion, we have gone back into our archives to find images of the four times she has visited Warrington.

And we want your memories of when the Queen came to Warrington. Did you meet her? Tell us more in the box below.

Warrington Guardian:

Her first official visit to the town was on May 17, 1968 when she took a tour or Bridge Street in the town centre after the area had been given a much-needed facelift.

More than ten years later, on November 7, 1979, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh made an official visit to Warrington to visit the new Golden Square development as well as stopping at the town hall.

Warrington Guardian:

It was more than twenty years later that Queen Elizabeth II visited the town again when on August 3, 1998 she was given a tour of the newly-opened Hollins Park Hospital in Winwick.

Her last visit to Warrington was on May 17, 2012 as she opened the new Orford Park hub, with more than a thousand gathering to welcome her.

Warrington Guardian: