Loveday headstone restored
The Old Cranleighan Society has restored the headstone of former Headmaster David Loveday after being told it had fallen into disrepair […]
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Cranleigh rugby receives national recognition.
Cranleigh’s outstanding rugby season in 2015-16 was recognised with their nomination for the best rugby school award at the Crabbies National rugby awards 2016 held at Twickenham on Thursday, September 1 […]
The bloody month of July
While much has been written about the first day of the Battle of the Somme (July 1, 1916) when there were 19,240 British soldiers killed, the appalling loss of life continued for the remainder of the month. Twenty Old Cranleighans died in July, more than 10% of the total lost in the conflict overall; all but one of those fell in France. […]
A soldier’s story
Lionel ‘Leo’ Last (House 1906) died early on the opening morning of the Battle of the Somme in 1916. It took a hundred years for his name to finally be included on the Cranleigh war memorial […]
Jolyon Palmer: ‘I’m better than my dad’
Jolyon Palmer (North 2009) speaks about the driver who inspired him most, what he would have been had he not gone into racing, and how he is the best in his family […]
Sports round-up – July 2016
A round-up of Old Cranleighan sports news including an England hockey debut, an U19 England cricket debut and our first netball Blue […]
New war memorial unveiled on OC Day
The unveiling of a poignant new war memorial by leading British sculptor Nicholas Dimbleby (1 North 1964) in front of the Chapel was the focus of OC Day on July 1 […]
Weather fails to dampen golfers
The 23rd OC Invitation Golf Day was held at the school on 1 June, and despite poor weather the course was in good shape and held up well […]
Cranleigh’s first match
On Friday, June 8, 1866 the School played its first proper competitive match when the Village doctor, Albert Napper, raised an XI to take on the Surrey County School on the Common. Three days later, on June 11, the first inter-school game was held when a team from Hurstpierpoint came to play […]
Cossetted from the outside world
Ninety years ago this month the country was paralysed for nine days by a General Strike, when almost two million worker, mainly in transport and heavy industries, stopped work in support of more than a million coal miners who were facing wage reductions and deteriorating working conditions […]