Jubilee beacons: Your pictures

5 June 2012 Last updated at 00:35

Jubilee beacons: Your pictures

Diamond Jubilee picture galleries

More than 4,000 beacons have been lit across the Commonwealth as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. You've been sending us your pictures. Here the beacon on Llangynidr Mountain is surrounded by members of the Jubilee Committee in Llangynidr, Powys, Wales who helped erect it. Photo: Timothy Evans.

And here is the Llangynidr beacon alight. Gemma Evans said: "Many people worked very hard to make this beacon lighting a success."

Alva Scouts constructed and erected a permanent beacon on the front of The Nebit, overlooking Alva in Clackmannanshire, Scotland, to celebrate both the Diamond Jubilee and the Centenary of Scouting in Alva. Photo: John Spruce.

John Spruce sent in this photo of the Alva beacon being lit.

A beacon alight by Longstone Lighthouse, Farne Islands, five miles off the Northumberland coast. Photo: Paul Dunning.

Hannah Gray went to see her father Neil - district commissioner of Spelthorne Scouts - light the Jubilee beacon in Staines. Photo: Hannah Gray.

The beacon on Chatley Heath Semaphore Tower, Cobham, Surrey. Photo: Peter Maude.

The light from the beacon on Chatley Heath's Semaphore Tower can be seen for miles around. Photo: Peter Maude.

This beacon at Fanol Fawr Manor House and Hotel, Bodelwydd, North Wales, is one of 47 across the UK organised by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Photo: Wyn Rowlands

The beacon atop Gibraltar's Tower of Homage. Liam McDade took this picture from his balcony, he said: "People here really entered into the spirit of the Jubilee, with lots of flags hanging from balcony windows."

Locals and students from Edinburgh University join together on the shores of Loch Assynt in Scotland to light their beacon. Photo: Arron Ashton

Volunteers at the Anson Engine Museum in Poynton, Cheshire, lit their beacon on top of the slag heap where the old Anson Colliery used to be. Photo: Geoff Challinor MBE. Send your pictures to yourpics@bbc.co.uk for terms and conditions see bbc.co.uk/terms.