Cranleigh’s ten Olympians
As two Cranleighans (Izzy Petter and James Gall) prepare to take part in the delayed 2020 Olympic Games, we look at the seven Cranleighans who became summer Olympians before them […]
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Features
‘I have an idea’
When Neil Ruthven (1 North 1977) gave up playing hockey, a friend introduced him to the lycra-clad world of cycling […]
How Cranleigh became a sporting powerhouse
On January 24th the Sunday Telegraph carried a full-page article by Charles Richardson on the success of sport at Cranleigh […]
Sports Round-Up
A round-up of the last few months of sport involving Old Cranleighans […]
Sports Round-Up
A review of the last few months of sporting inaction! […]
An exciting but precarious career
Rob Curling (West 1975) has enjoyed a long media career, working for the BBC, Sky and Eurosport, as well as plethora of freelance jobs. We caught up with him and asked how it all started […]
Walking with Churchill – VE Day 1945
How David Cooper (2 North ) and John Patrick () found themselves in a procession of MPs headed by Winston Churchill on VE Day […]
Cranleigh memories of VE Day
On VE Day 75 years ago celebrations were held all over the country and Cranleigh was no exception […]
A Norwegian hero
The last Cranleighan to die before VE Day was Olav Ringdal, who was member of the Norwegian resistance shot by the Germans in the final weeks of the war […]
The silent Armistice
A look back to 1918 when the Spanish Flu pandemic caused Cranleigh to send all boys home early […]