Martin, Author at Old Cranleighan Society

Explaining Cranleigh’s crest

Martin | January 20, 2025 | Features, History

The School receives regular requests concerning the origins of the Cranleigh crest, what the various components on it mean, and how it has changed over the years. This article should help explain it all […]

A truly special event

Martin | December 11, 2024 | News

There’s nothing more festive than singing carols together, and with Cranleigh School’s Chapel lit by candlelight, and the beautiful voices of our Choir, the evening was truly magical and a real highlight in the Old Cranleighan diary […]

Gower give School tough games

Martin | October 20, 2024 | News

The two Gower Club matches provided the best entertainment for quite some time. The 1st XV game was won 38-7 by the School in a contest closer than the scoreline suggests, while the 5th XV were defeated by the Gower side 31-22 […]

Connections and Kindness

Martin | September 24, 2024 | News

Last Spring Max Foster (Cubitt 2020) walked from Lands End to John 0’Groats – on his own […]

Sports Round-Up – September 2024

Martin | September 7, 2024 | Uncategorized

A Paralympic silver medal for Greg Slade, Ollie Pope named England captain for the Test series v Sri Lanka, and Olympic appearances in Paris for Izzy Petter and Will Calnan […]

D-Day forty years on

Martin | June 6, 2024 | Features, History

On June 6, 1984, Cranleigh held a parade to mark the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings. Alan Smith wrote about it in that year’s Cranleighan […]

‘We knew the invasion was about to begin’

Martin | June 5, 2024 | Features, History

While much has been written about the secrecy that surrounded the D-Day landings, the boys at Cranleigh were among the first in the country to know the invasion had started on June 6, 1944 […]

A tragic and futile incident

Martin | June 4, 2024 | Features, History

Much will be written in the coming days about those involved in the D-Day landings. Among the 1,449 British combatants who died on June 6th 1944 few stories are quite as sad as that of 24-year-old Private Philip Sargent […]