Our first round saw us drawn against Forest at Royal St Georges on Thursday morning. Pairs 2 and 3 won well, pair 4 staged a strong fight back having been down early to be all square on 16th, and pair 5 faced some strong opposition, doing well to keep their match alive. Pleasingly it fell […]
Ted Jackson (2&3 South, 1990) is scared. He is about to attempt seven marathons on seven continents in seven days, making a mad dash across the world from Antarctica to Australia […]
Two Old Cranleighans earned Blues in the Varsity match at Twickenham on December 12 with very differing fortunes. Henry Lamont (East 2012), who was winning his second Blue for Oxford, scored his side’s second try in their 33-15 win; Will Yeeles, last year’s senior prefect, came on as a substitute for Cambridge and came close to scoring – his effort was ruled out after a television review […]
James Harpur visited his old school (he was in 2 North from 1970-75) to read and discuss his poetry with two sets of AS students, who are studying his National Poetry Competition first prize –winning sonnet sequence, The Frame of Furnace Light for coursework […]
Cranleigh Abu Dhabi was officially launched this week to an audience of over four hundred people at the St Regis Hotel on Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi […]
We are running a survey so all Old Cranleighans can have a say in what the Society does and how it provides for its membership […]
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 […]
More than 150 Old Cranleighans and Cranleigh parents – as well as the current and future headmasters – turned out at the HAC on October 16 to watch the School 1st XV beat Stowe 19-7 in a hard-fought game. After a scoreless first half Cranleigh went behind to a converted try soon after the restart […]
The sun shone on the 13th annual Gower Sevens, an inter-year competition with 11 different winners since 2001. The only years to have won twice are 2006 and 2007. Four years ago the OCFRC entered a squad and called themselves the OC Barbarians. Congratulations to them on being this year’s winners. Three expert Barbecuers produced […]
Cricketer Cup final: Old Cranleighans 218 for 9 (B Scriven 82) lost to Old Tonbridgians 221 for 8 (Cowdrey 84*) by two wickets In the end the Old Cranleighans fell agonisingly short at the final hurdle, going down by two wickets to Old Tonbridgians in a tense Cricketer Cup final at Wimbledon CC. For the last hour of an […]