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ROSEDALE VE DAY 80 COMMEMORATION – 8 MAY 2025

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.

Getting the Bears ready for their Picnic
One of the Poppy Displays

The Picnic on The Green

The Picnic in full swing!

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.

ROSEDALE VE DAY CELEBRATION – 8 MAY 2025

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.

MOBILE LIBRARY UPDATE

The mobile library service due to vidit Rosedale Abbey today, 19 Match, has been cancelled because of mechanical problems. The next visit will be on Wednesday 2 April from 1.00 to 3.00pm.

ABBEY STORES OPENING TIMES – CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR

ROSEDALE SHOW 2024 – SETTING UP

Show time approaches rapidly and so the organizing committee has put out the annual plea for volunteers to come to the Milburn Field on Tuesday evening, 13 August, at 6.00pm to help set up the arenas – if you can please come along, armed with a pair of gardening gloves and a pair of scissors, and a friend or two!

The Show is organised and run entirely by volunteers, so your help with setting up the showground is very important and would be much appreciated – see you there on Tuesday 13 August ay 6.00pm.

ROSEDALE VILLAGE HALL

The next Coffee Morning in the Coach House Inn will be in aid of the Reading Room/Village Hall and will be on Saturday 1 June from 10.00 to 12.00 am – please come along and support this cause and enjoy the company, cake sales and raffle.

BROWNIE’S 80th BIRTHDAY!

Coincidently, around 80 people from the village and dale gathered in the Coach House In on Friday 19 January 2024 to celebrate Ian ‘Brownie’ Brown’s 80th birthday. It was a well kept surprise and Brownie took a few minutes to recover after his arrival!

Brownie’s arrival in the Coach House
Brownie being greeted by his son Paul.
Dave Oakey presenting Ian with a birthday card signed by his many well-wishers.
Ian recalling some stories of his time in Rosedale.
Ian thanking everyone for their good wishes on his birthday – along with a few tears!
All in one go! Blowing out the candles on his lovely birthday cake.
The birthday cake, courtesy of James Appleton of Graze on the Green – and Happy Birthday, Brownie, and many more of them from all in Rosedale.

Thanks to Dave Oakey and his team in the Coach House Inn for their splendid hosting of the event and to Jan Baker for her coordination of all the details.

MOBILE LIBRARY DATES

CHRISTMAS AUCTION – 25 NOVEMBER 2023

As has become a tradition in Rosedale, the auction in aid of the Rosedale Reading Room/Village Hall was a noisy, crowded and joyful occasion which raised around £3,500 thanks to the outstanding generosity of the donors of auction lots and the uninhibited, highly competitive bidding of those in the audience!

Some of the auction lots on display – the bike went for £300!
Getting ready for the fun and excitement.
The First Lot – a jar of pickled onions, yours for £10
A pair of giraffes, anyone?
A cuddly Dave Seller, with toy!

As always huge thanks to Dave Oakey and the team at the Coach House for coping with the onslaught, and to Sue Foster and the auction helpers for an outstanding evening – a great start to Christmas.

CAROLS ON THE GREEN 2023 – 22 DECEMBER 2023

… and stout boots or wellies might be useful! Look forward to seeing you all outside Abbey Stores on 22 December at 6.30pm.