HUNDREDS of people gathered together for a screening of the Queen’s state funeral at a town park.

Around 1,000 people attended the viewing at Alexandra Park in Hastings as the ceremony took place at Westminster Abbey and onwards to Windsor.

People get up deckchairs or sat on the grass to watch the service take place in London.

Hastings Borough Council thanked Love Hatings for providing the screen to allow the town to come together and Hastings Borough Bonfire Society for stewarding the event.

Mourners also gathered at the Picturedrome Cinema in Bognor, Uckfield Picturehouse, Hailsham Church and Brighton Palace Pier to watch the state funeral to the longest-serving monarch in British history.

The screening at the Palace Pier faced some disruption due to a lack of satellite signal, but was fixed to allow people to continue to watch the ceremony.

Crowds watching at Horatios Bar on the pier stood as the national anthem was played at the end of the service at Westminster Abbey.

Meanwhile, the culture secretary Michelle Donelan confirmed that around a quarter of a million people paid their respects to the Queen by viewing her coffin as it lay in state last week in London.

While Ms Donelan said that the government was still “crunching the numbers” as to how many people queued for hours in London, she said she believed they numbered around 250,000.

If the figures turn out to be accurate, it would surpass the number of people who passed by the coffin of the Queen Mother in 2002.