Howard Beaumont's Scarborough 400 Coffee Dance

Howard Beaumont returns to the Scarborough Spa on Wednesday 28 October for another Coffee Dance in the Ocean Room. He's billed as 'The King of The Keyboards', and the morning is built around his playing: a programme of ballroom, Latin and popular sequence dancing. You can work your way around the floor if you're there to dance, or just take a table and listen if you'd rather stay put.

The dance is part of Scarborough 400, the year-long celebration marking 400 years since the town's spa waters were discovered in 1626. That discovery is what made Scarborough Britain's first seaside resort. The story goes back to Thomasin Farrer, who found mineral springs beneath the cliffs; the water stained the rocks russet and was said to cure minor ailments. By 1700, the entrepreneur Dicky Dickinson had built the first spa buildings, and Dr Robert Wittie published a book about the waters in 1660. The Ocean Room is right in the heart of that history, so the morning sits within a much bigger story for the town.

It's a mid-morning session, so you'll be done and away well before lunch. Doors open at 10:00, the music starts at 10:30, and it wraps up by 12:30. Entry is £5.00 per person, payable on the door.