Dates for your diary!

Dates for your diary!

It may only be January but the Goostrey Rose Day committee is already getting started with planning for the big event which will take place on Saturday 29th June. Goostrey Rose Festival is a village tradition dating back to 1905 and is held on the last Saturday of...
South African Visitors Arrive for Goostrey Rose Day Celebrations

South African Visitors Arrive for Goostrey Rose Day Celebrations

A party of South African children and their teachers have arrived in Goostrey and will take part in the village’s annual Rose Festival. Eight children and two teachers from the Elizabethfontein school in the Western Cape, South Africa will be an integral part of this...
Goostrey Rose Day Honours Stalwart with New Competition and Trophy

Goostrey Rose Day Honours Stalwart with New Competition and Trophy

A party of South African children and their teachers have arrived in Goostrey and will take part in the village’s annual Rose Festival. Eight children and two teachers from the Elizabethfontein school in the Western Cape, South Africa will be an integral part of this...
12 year old Ella set to be Goostrey Rose Queen

12 year old Ella set to be Goostrey Rose Queen

Ella Wilford has been chosen as this year’s Goostrey Rose Queen and will be crowned at the annual Rose Day event on Saturday 24 June. Ella,12, who attends Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School, has taken part in Rose Day every year since she was a little girl has always...
Goostrey remembers Mrs Kettle

Goostrey remembers Mrs Kettle

Goostrey remembers Mrs Kettle Margaret Kettle, who passed away aged 100 on 27th December personified Goostrey Rose Day which she first attended at the age of five and each subsequent one for the next 94 years. Margaret wrote an article for the Centenary Rose Day...