The last Harvest Festival of the London Pearly Kings and Queens Society takes place at Covent Garden's St Paul's Church. Gifts of produce are then donated to the homeless helped by the Connections at St Martin-in-the-Fields charity.
The Pearly Kings and Queens are as traditional as rhyming slang, and can date their history back 150 years to the costermongers of Somers Town who wore their buttons to stand out.
There are still some 40 active families, fundraising for a variety of charities and the Pearly Society holds an earlier Harvest Festival at St Mary-le-Bow.
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