The weekend Cranleigh flooded
In September 1968, flash floods left Cranleigh High Street underwater and severely disrupted the beginning of the 1968 Michaelmas Term […]
Category: History
A brief history of the Old Cranleighans
Forest Gallery up and running in Petworth
Ashley Cordwell (East 2006) has opened the Forest Gallery in Petworth. Mike Payne went to have a look […]
From tiny acorns …
On September 18, 1866, less than a year after the School had opened, the first formal picture of the boys of the Surrey County School was taken on the South Field after the inaugural Speech Day […]
Cranleigh’s first match
On Friday, June 8, 1866 the School played its first proper competitive match when the Village doctor, Albert Napper, raised an XI to take on the Surrey County School on the Common. Three days later, on June 11, the first inter-school game was held when a team from Hurstpierpoint came to play […]
Cossetted from the outside world
Ninety years ago this month the country was paralysed for nine days by a General Strike, when almost two million worker, mainly in transport and heavy industries, stopped work in support of more than a million coal miners who were facing wage reductions and deteriorating working conditions […]
The wretched month of May
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 […]
The man who covered the end of the war
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 […]
Cranleigh memories of VE Day
May 8 marked the 70th anniversary of VE Day when Germany and its remaining allies surrendered and the war in Europe came to an end. Celebrations were held all over the country and Cranleigh was no exception […]
A middle-class revolutionary
The Old Cranleighan who stood for parliament against Tony Benn and called for a middle-class revolution against the Labour government […]
On the eve of war …
“The clouds of war were gathering,” wrote Geoffrey Bateman (2 North 1919), “but I think most of us regarded the trouble in Serbia as just a third Balkan war. But by the end of term the situation looked more serious”. Cranleigh life in the days as war approached 100 years ago […]