Scores of mourners paid their respects to a well-known and much-loved great-grandad today.

Friends and family turned out en masse to say goodbye to Danny Gibbs, 69, a popular market trader from Ashford.

VIDEO: Mourners pay their respects.

To begin the spectacular send off, a long cortege of around 50 cars left a home in Musgrove, South Ashford at 9.30am.

The procession, including a black horse drawn carriage with four white horses with red plumes, then passed the Ashford Market on the Orbital Park, where Mr Gibbs was well-known.

Mourners, numbering well over 100, then made their way to this morning's service at St Francis Church, before heading to Bybrook Cemetery off Canterbury Road, Kennington for the committal at 1.30pm.

The small church was packed to overflowing for the service.

Family and friends wore black with red ribbons in their hair, while a piper played music.

Following the carriage were seven black hearses, with red ribbons on the handles, a notion adopted on other cars in the procession too. A pick-up truck with funeral flowers on the back also followed.

Stagecoach bus company was warning of possible delays for those using their services around the town earlier on Twitter.