Features
“The clouds of war were gathering,” wrote Geoffrey Bateman (2 North 1919), “but I think most of us regarded the trouble in Serbia as just a third Balkan war. But by the end of term the situation looked more serious”. Cranleigh life in the days as war approached 100 years ago […]
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 […]
In 2015 the School celebrates its 150th anniversary … but almost two years earlier, in November 1863, the foundation stone was laid and we look back at the events of that day […]
How another 42 Old Cranleighans who fell in the 1914-18 war have been discovered and will need to be added to the Cranleigh memorial in the Jubilee pavilion […]
On October 15, the Cranleigh School squash team (supplemented by a couple of teachers) took on the might of the OCs. Resplendent in their blazers the OCs cut quite a dash, and their younger opposition felt a touch intimidated. Rightly so, as it turned out, with Cranleigh being firmly put in their place in a […]
Mike Payne interviews Martin Williamson (2&3 South 1980), who replaced Nick Meyer as chairman of the Old Cranleighan Society in January. What do you see as the main challenges of your new post as Chairman of the OC Society? We need to work hard to ensure that we look after all Old Cranleighans. In the […]
Henry Casswell is an almost forgotten figure in Cranleigh history – in Alan Megahey’s History of Cranleigh School he warranted one passing mention – and yet aside from Joseph Merriman, the first headmaster, no single figure made more impact on the early life of Cranleigh and the Old Cranleighans. Casswell was born in Lincolnshire into an established […]
May 1962 certain members of the alumni of that year were pondering what to do during the summer holidays, which would be our last one before we either went to University or joined the palaces of industry after leaving school. I had the bright idea of going on a cricket tour to Cornwall and I […]