PALMERS Green residents took to the streets this weekend for a festival celebrating local trade.

The Green Lanes Business Association organised the 16th Palmers Green Shopping Festival, an annual event to celebrate what is on offer in the town centre.

The festival, on Saturday, July 2, featured a day of live street theatre, music, poetry, and games, as well as a children's treasure hunt.

Local school children and members of community groups joined in the fun, which was followed on Sunday by a health and wellbeing festival in Broomfield Park.