After years of being hidden away in a boiler room above the Common Room, the Cranleigh archives are moving to a new home next month – the old bookshop. The new area will be known as the Cranleighan Room. With most books now bought online, the bookshop no longer needed the space on the east […]
The OC Society will be holding its first-ever art exhibition to celebrate the professional artistic talent of its members. The jewel in the crown of the week-long exhibition will be a private champagne reception on the evening of June 16 from 7.00 pm, at the Strand Gallery, 32 John Adam Street, WC2N 6BP (near Charing […]
A Ministry of Defence press release last year: “It is with sadness that the Ministry of Defence must confirm that Major James Joshua Bowman, Lieutenant Neal Turkington and Corporal Arjun Purja Pun from 1st Battalion The Royal Gurkha Rifles were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday July 13 2010. The three soldiers, serving as part of […]
The extent to which Kenya have regressed as a cricketing force can be seen from their fortunes at the World Cup. Two tournaments ago, in 2003, they reached the semi-finals and were being talked up as a possible 11th Test nation, but in the intervening years they have been chastised for their lack of investment in grassroots […]
Seren Waters’ inclusion in Kenya’s squad for the forthcoming ICC Cricket World Cup is a fantastic achievement for him and also for Cranleigh cricket. Waters, who made his debut for Cranleigh’s 1st XI as a 14-year-old, broke the record aggregate of runs scored in a season in his final year, and is now on the […]
There have been several recent articles in the national media about the fund raising to erect a statue of legendary footballer turned TV pundit Jimmy Hill at Coventry City. The sculptor who has been commissioned to undertake the work is Nicholas Dimbleby (2 North 1964) who has already sketched several designs for the statue, which […]
Daniel Sheppard (Cubitt, 2007) finished third recently in a competition for solving 10 Rubik’s cubes in one hour while blindfolded. He competed against more than 200 people from 26 nations in the European Rubik’s Cube Championship in Budapest, winning 100 euros and beating his own British record at the same time. His event, the Rubik’s […]
The Old Cranleighan Lawyers’ Society is exactly what it says on its tin: a society of Old Cranleighans who work in the legal field. The objective of the Society is to act as a fun and informal forum for Old Cranleighan lawyers to meet up with each other. It is also hoped that the Society […]
Sir Peter Wakefield, who died on December 1 aged 88, served as Britain’s Ambassador in Beirut in the 1970s during the Lebanese civil war, though he may well be remembered more for what he did in retirement than as a distinguished diplomatist. Soon after leaving his last post, as Ambassador to Belgium, he was appointed […]
Stuart Meaker has been named as the first recipient of the Harold Larwood Fast Bowling scholarship to Australia. Seven players are participating in the England Cricket Board’s Fast Bowling Programme this winter. This group includes Meaker (Surrey) who has been nominated as the first recipient of the Larwood Fast Bowling Scholarship which will be nominated […]