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School memories of VE Day

vingle | May 7, 2025 | Features, History

On VE Day 75 years ago celebrations were held all over the country and Cranleigh School was no exception […]

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Walking with Churchill – VE Day 1945

Martin | May 7, 2025 | Features

How David Cooper (2 North 1951) and John Patrick (2 North 1948) found themselves in a procession of MPs headed by Winston Churchill on VE Day […]

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From Buzzword to Bottom Line

Martin | April 14, 2025 | Features, Uncategorized

We spoke to AI entrepreneur Jake Subba Row (East 2018) about the road that lead him to setting a new business utilising AI to help the world of real estate […]

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Explaining Cranleigh’s crest

Martin | January 20, 2025 | Features, History

The School receives regular requests concerning the origins of the Cranleigh crest, what the various components on it mean, and how it has changed over the years. This article should help explain it all […]

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Cranleigh’s 11 Olympians

cranleighschooladmin | July 29, 2024 | Features

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 […]

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D-Day forty years on

Martin | June 6, 2024 | Features, History

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 […]

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‘We knew the invasion was about to begin’

Martin | June 5, 2024 | Features, History

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 […]

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A tragic and futile incident

Martin | June 4, 2024 | Features, History

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 […]

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Juurnee

Martin | February 21, 2024 | Features

During her time at Cranleigh Rachel Crampton (West 2004) made friends for life […]

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The Hilltop Kitchen

Martin | June 22, 2023 | Features, News

Alex Winch (Cubitt 2007) and his business partner Sam Fiddian-Green have created the hugely popular Hilltop Kitchen in between Hascombe and Godalming in the Surrey Hills […]

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