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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...

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...

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...

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...

The generous people of Goostrey have donated 40 items for a promise auction to help raise funds for Goostrey Rose Festival and a visit by children and teachers from South Africa who will be spending two weeks in the village this summer. The on-line auction of promises...

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 programme in 2005 and her...

Organisers of this year’s Goostrey Rose Festival are appealing for people to come forward to help run the annual event of Saturday 25 June. For the past two years Rose Day celebrations have been limited because of the pandemic but organisers are hoping to return to...

Lucy Boardman has been chosen as this year’s Goostrey Rose Queen and will be crowned at the annual Rose Day event on Saturday 25 June.  Lucy,12, who lives off Main Road, has taken part in Rose Day every year since she was a little girl has always wanted to be the Rose...

Tug-o-war is back! We are looking for teams of 8 adults (aged 16+) to enter for a chance of glory and bragging rights for an entire year!  It's a 30 minute commitment during the afternoon of Rose Day activities. Mixed teams, sports teams, friends and family teams -...

Three girls are in line to be chosen to represent Goostrey as the village’s Rose Queen and her attendants for 2022. The new Queen will be chosen by a panel of independent judges at the Village Hall on Saturday 12 March. On the same day the traditional party for infant...