RON Eamonson flings his arms open wide and laughs as he wishes he could have a thousand guests at his Sutton Coldfield street party.

The former company director is organiser-in-chief of the royal wedding celebrations in his quiet cul-de-sac.

On the day of the wedding the 78-year-old’s road will be just one of 25 in Birmingham to sit down to a tea in honour of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

The mock Tudor houses and Royal blue paintwork in Trewman Close might signal it was always going to assemble rows of trestle tables, under lines of bunting, come April 29.

But the locals’ rediscovery of their community spirit only came recently.

Mr Eamonson described how it happened as hundreds of people gathered for a carol service in Walmley last Christmas.