In pictures: Children's day at Notting Hill Carnival

The aboriginal of the Notting Hill Carnival was astatine the forefront connected Sunday arsenic the accepted children's time parade coiled done the streets of westbound London.

The family-friendly time is designed to promote the adjacent procreation - and hundreds of youngsters donned their gladsome rags and turned retired to creation on the route.

Here are conscionable a fewer who got into the carnival spirit:

The carnival is 1 of the longest-running thoroughfare parties successful the satellite and the largest thoroughfare enactment successful Europe.

More than 2 cardinal people, including thousands of tourists, be each twelvemonth to travel the three-mile parade done W10.

The lawsuit is an planetary showcase for mas dancing, soca, calypso, alloy bands and dependable systems.

The Mayor of London Sadiq Khan earlier referred to the carnival arsenic "part of the precise cloth of our city".

"The community-led solemnisation of Caribbean past and civilization embodies everything that makes London the top metropolis successful the satellite and, arsenic we proceed to enactment to physique a fairer, much prosperous metropolis for all, I'm delighted that it's back, bigger and amended than ever."

The solemnisation continues connected Bank Holiday Monday with the adults' parade which begins astatine midday. Spectators are advised to get aboriginal to get a bully spot.