Features
He is one of the most powerful figures in British film, and Hollywood too, for that matter. Yet the low-key Eric Fellner (East 1977) is the polar opposite of the stereotype of the sharp-suited, fast-talking movie mogul. […]
Trevor Stephenson recalls his time at Cranleigh between 1929 and 1931, starting off with his arrival at the School […]
Motivated by food shortages during the war and a desire for self-sufficiency, Cranleigh School was an early adopter of the school farm […]
By September 1915 , World War One had been going on for a year and the stalemate which was to be abiding image of the conflict on the Western Front had become established. But the stark reality really hit home when the School returned for the Michaelmas Term to learn that the previous year’s Senior Prefect had been killed in battle. He was 20. […]
May 1915 proved to be one of the worst of the war with nine OCs killed, eight in the first ten days alone, including a pair of brothers who fell on the same day […]
As the Second World War ended in May 1945, millions tuned in to the BBC for the latest news and for reports from Berlin. The man they heard broadcasting from the ruined city was the corporation’s Paris correspondent, Thomas Cadett […]
The Old Cranleighan who stood for parliament against Tony Benn and called for a middle-class revolution against the Labour government […]
On April 26 1915, Harold Haile ‘Tertius’ Last (East 1905) died at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in London from injuries received in Belgium the previous month. He was 22 and was the tenth Old Cranleighan to have died in the nine months of the war to that point […]
Sixty years ago this month a failed Kenyan coffee planter and three associates set out from Nairobi in a Morris Traveller to drive across Africa, through the Sahara Desert and Europe to London. The poorly planned expedition was to end in failure and the death of Alan ‘Sweetie’ Cooper (East 1926).
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March 10 marks the centenary of the first large-scale British offensive of World War One, the first day of the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. In the four-day battle the British lost 544 officers and 11,108 other ranks. Two of the officers who fell on the first day were Old Cranleighans […]