The new Organ, already paid for thanks to an OC’s outstanding generosity, is awaiting the full funds needed to enable its installation within a tiered organ gallery, designed to provide much-needed additional House seating – please see the artist’s impression on page 38 of The Old Cranleighan. The white paint is already removed from the […]
Paul Maxlow-Tomlinson has formed a Lawyers’ Society after a good response. The next Meeting will be on Monday 1 February, at 6.30 pm at Ashurst’s in London. There will be drinks and canapés, and David Westcott QC (2 North, 1975) will talk on the new Charities Act and how it may impinge on the interests of […]
HWM (Hersham and Walton Motors) did indeed mean motor car greatness after its founders bought a garage together in 1946. On a tiny budget, these two men built cars while operating the company, which is now the oldest Aston Martin dealership in the world (its franchise began in 1951), and the largest in Britain on […]
Few people in Cranleigh’s rich history have contributed more to the fabric of the School during their lifetime than the late President of the OC Society, Vivian Cox, who sadly passed away earlier this year at the age of 93. Vivian had, in so many ways, already left a lasting legacy to Cranleigh, thanks to […]
Although the official opening of the renovated Jubilee pavilion is not until OC Day on June 14, it is already in use, and on May 22 a small dinner was given by the school to those who were involved in the rebuilding. Suffice to say that the interior is stunning, and for the first time […]
Film producer who worked with many big names of the 1950s and 1960s British cinema and then turned to schoolmastering Viv Cox won respect, and some fame, producing films at Pinewood Studios and for Rank. Among the better known actors he worked with were Dirk Bogarde and Hattie Jacques. Spike Milligan, the Goon Show comic […]
Adrian Crouch (Loveday, 2006) and Max Eton (Prep School, 2001) recently completed the challenging pilgrimage walk in Comino De Santiago: 800 kms in 33 days to raise over £1,000 for “Help for Heroes” – supporting our armed forces’ casualties returning from overseas conflicts. Adrian writes: Part of the driving force for selecting this charity was […]
Olympians turned up by the truck-load as Cranleigh Prep School opened their new artificial Westcott Pitch on April 17. There were 10 in all – including Dave Faulkner, Richard Mantell and Richard Leman – plus six national players to form an invitational side to take on the school’s finest (past and present) in a special […]
Nearly 30 OCs, together with the headmaster and Mike Payne, gathered at Deal last week to support our Halford Hewitt team in our 70th appearance at this notable competition organised by the Public Schools Golf Association. Drawn against a young Old Etonian side, the team battled against a cold and strong northerly wind to lose […]
A group of 18 of us spent one March night in Ypres, either side of which we attended the Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate and the Dedication of the Plaque in St George’s Memorial Church which commemorates the sacrifice of 11 Old Cranleighans in the Ypres Salient in World War One. The Dedication […]