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
Last Spring Max Foster (Cubitt 2020) walked from Lands End to John 0’Groats – on his own […]
Sports Round-Up – September 2024
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 […]
Cranleigh’s 11 Olympians
As Izzy Petter (2&3 South 2018) and Will Calnan (Cubitt 2014) take part in the Paris Olympics we look at the nine Cranleighans who became summer Olympians before them […]
D-Day forty years on
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’
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
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 […]
Sports round-up – May 2024
A round-up of the last few months of OC sport with success at Harlequins and a century of international caps for Izzy Petter […]
Nick Meyer’s 80 by 80 – as it progresses
Nick Meyer (2&3 South 1962) is walking an 80km cross country route from Winchester to Cranleigh to raise money for the Foundation […]
Ten OCs complete London Marathon
All ten Old Cranleighans (that we know of) who set off completed the 2024 London Marathon on Sunday, raising, to date, almost £31,000 for their chosen charities […]