Roman Road Summer Festival 2016 [photoessay]
The third Roman Road Summer Festival brought Roman Road Market to life with live music all day, a Cockney Corner with East End music, language, games and entertainment, children’s craft workshops and street entertainment from buskers, stilt dancers and roving performers, plus hot food, guided heritage tours and over 50 stalls including 40 designer-makers from Urban Makers East.
It was a glorious hot summer’s day and 12,000 people turned out from near and far to enjoy this homegrown community event, made from 90% local ingredients. Here are some of the highlights caught on camera.
![Singers on the Airstream stage decorated with palm trees at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_13-1024x683.jpg)
![Dave Neita, People's Lawyer and People's Poet talking on Airstream stage at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_25-1024x683.jpg)
![Hip hop dancers performing on artificial grass at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_49-1024x683.jpg)
![Slilt walker in green fairy outfit with wings spread at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_55-1024x683.jpg)
![Street food trader selling food at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_67-1024x683.jpg)
![Woman holding large shaggy dog in her arms at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_125-1024x683.jpg)
![Woman in Suffragettes clothing at Roman Road Summer Festival](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_119-1024x683.jpg)
![Paper plate festoon decorations at Roman Road Summer Festival](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_73-1024x683.jpg)
![Women in straw hat enjoying Urban Makers East market at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_22-1024x683.jpg)
![Performers in fancy dress bearing a placard saying Welcome to Roman Road at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_85-1024x683.jpg)
![The craft table was mobbed all day with children making Match Women's hats in celebration of Annie Besant's workers riots at Bryant & May factory in Bow © Oliver Lynton](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_111-1024x683.jpg)
![Three Asian girls wearing festival hats at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_108-1024x683.jpg)
![Child with Pearly Queen baseball cap at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_118-1024x683.jpg)
![Two older women holding a framed print of the Bow Geezers nude calendar photo shoot at Roman Road Summer Festival](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_69-1024x683.jpg)
![Young child playing tribal drums on the street at Roman Road Summer Festival](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_50-1024x683.jpg)
![Magician entertaining children at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_94-1024x683.jpg)
![Two women sitting at a cafe table against a London brick wall at Roman Road Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_62-1024x683.jpg)
![Young girl with face painted and wearing hand crafted Match Women's hat at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_61-1024x683.jpg)
![The designer-maker traders from Urban Makers East at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_10-1024x683.jpg)
![Vintage collectables at market stall at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_16-1024x683.jpg)
![Freddie and the Freeloaders on the Airstream stage at Roman Road Summer Festival 2016](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_127-1024x683.jpg)
![Psychedelic dance troop The Action Men on the Airstream stage at Roman Road Summer Festival, watched by audience seated in stripy deckchairs](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_134-1024x683.jpg)
![Asian family holding baby in arms and watching magic show at Roman Road Summer Festival](https://romanroadlondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Roman_Road_Festival_2016_Oliver_Lynton_web_106-1024x683.jpg)