School memories of VE Day
On VE Day 75 years ago celebrations were held all over the country and Cranleigh School was no exception […]
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Features
Walking with Churchill – VE Day 1945
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 […]
From Buzzword to Bottom Line
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 […]
Explaining Cranleigh’s crest
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 […]
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 […]
Juurnee
During her time at Cranleigh Rachel Crampton (West 2004) made friends for life […]
The Hilltop Kitchen
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 […]