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 […]
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Features
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 […]
Forging Futures
OCs Tom and Osha Hufton have opened a lovely social enterprise cafe in Shamley Green […]
Abi Ratoff
Abi Ratoff (South 2017) is an illustrator based in Horsham and London who now works mainly in digital illustration […]
Frank Dove
We mark Black History Month by looking at Frank Dove (1 North 1915) who was one of the first black British Olympians and who won a medal for bravery in World War One […]
Twelve OCs complete London Marathon
We are proud to report that 12 Old Cranleighans completed the London Marathon on Sunday, raising (so far) almost £26,000 for charity […]