For all of us suffering from gourmet gateaux deprivation since Darren and James closed down their business after ten hard working but profitable years in Rosedale, the very good news is that Sam and Andrea Miller are intending to re-open the bakery and tea room on Saturday 16 August, Show Day as it happens!

Sam, who hails from York, intends to open initially for teas, coffees and cakes before developing the business to reflect his widespread experience in hospitality which has included working in high end restaurants in Denmark, France, and Spain. So we welcome Sam, Andrea and their two children to Rosedale and wish them all the very best of luck for their new adventure here.

Your show needs you!

This a call for help to set up the show field on Tuesday evening, 12 August from 6.00pm – if you can spare a couple of hours please come along with a pair of gloves and some scissors and join in setting up the arenas for the show.

And then on Sunday morning, hangovers permitting, please come again and help take down the barriers and strip out the Industrial and craft tents. The weather is set fair so bring along the family to help out.

The next Coffee Morning, Cake Sale and Charity Raffle will be held in the Coach House Inn on Saturday 2 August from 10.00 to 12.00am in aid of Ryedale Special Families.

Dave Oakey and the Coach House team look forward to seeing you all then and there!

As posted on the door to the cafe, Darren and James have announced that they have sold the business and will be moving to Scotland shortly.

They have run the tea room with great skill over the last ten years, establishing a legendary reputation for their hospitality and the quality of their coffee and baking. We wish them the very best for their new life in the far North and look forward to welcoming Sam and Andrea to Rosedale in the near future.

The next charity coffee morning with raffle will be on Saturday 5 July from 10 to 12am and held in the Coach House Inn in Rosedale Abbey by kind permission of Dave Oakey.

The event will be in aid of Yorkshire Cancer Research – most of us will know of family members or friends who have been affected by one form of cancer or another so your support for this very important research charity will be most welcome.

The new Rosedale calendar has just been published, containing landscapes, people and wildlife of the dale taken by seven local photographers and is sold in aid of the Rosedale church appeal fund.

The calendar is available in Abbey Stores in Rosedale Abbey at £10 a copy and will be on sale in the Rosedale History Archive tent at Rosedale Show on 16 August. Further sale outlets will be notified here shortly.

The appeal stands at around £100,000, an outstanding achievement for such a small parish, and work on stabilising the roof is expected to start shortly once architects plans are finally approved; however, the total cost for all the works necessary is thought now to be over £200,000 so bids are being placed with the appropriate finding bodies. As the advert says ‘every little bit helps’ so your contributions will be very welcome!

The 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day was marked in Rosedale by taking Winston Churchill’s advice with ‘a brief moment of celebration’ in the form of a picnic on the village green on Thursday evening, 8 May 2025. As well as the picnic on the green, the community school set up a teddy bears’ picnic and later in the evening the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee memorial was illuminated as part of the national beacon lighting campaign.

The Picnic on The Green

The Rosedale Beacon

With heartfelt thanks to Lorraine Dale for organising the event, Lorrie Westwood for the wonderful poppy displays and to David Simons for the evocative wartime musical soundtrack, all a fitting local tribute to the Greatest Generation.

Bring a bottle, a snack or two and a blanket to the village green at 8.30pm on Thursday 8 May 2025 to join with others in commemorating the end of the war in Europe on 8 May 1945. The Crown beacon will be ceremonially re-lit at 9.30pm in line with the the national beacon lighting and there will be appropriate music and song, and maybe some dancing!

See you all there for a good knees up.

Over £360 was collected for the Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team at the coffee morning held at theCoach House Inn in Rosedale Abbey on 3 May 25.

Once again, very many thanks to all who contributed prizes for the raffle and those who donated cash for the coffee and to the staff of the Coach House for sponsoring this successful event.