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Category: History

A brief history of the Old Cranleighans

Cranleigh memories of VE Day

vingle | May 7, 2020 | Features, History

On VE Day 75 years ago celebrations were held all over the country and Cranleigh was no exception […]

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A tragic and futile incident

Martin | June 5, 2019 | Features, History

In the early morning of June 6th 1944, Private Philip Sargent (1&4 South 1938) became one of over 4000 Allied troops to be killed on D-Day.  He was 24 years old and a committed pacifist […]

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‘We knew the invasion was about to begin’

Martin | June 5, 2019 | Features, History

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 […]

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D-Day forty years on

Martin | June 5, 2019 | Features, History

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 […]

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The weekend Cranleigh flooded

Martin | September 20, 2018 | Features, History
George Puttock's milk float during the 1968 Cranleigh floods

In September 1968, flash floods  left Cranleigh  High Street underwater and severely disrupted the beginning of the 1968 Michaelmas Term […]

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Forest Gallery up and running in Petworth

Martin | March 12, 2017 | History

Ashley Cordwell (East 2006) has opened the Forest Gallery in Petworth. Mike Payne went to have a look […]

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From tiny acorns …

Martin | September 19, 2016 | Features, History

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 […]

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Cranleigh’s first match

Martin | June 8, 2016 | Features, History
Henry Casswell

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 […]

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Cossetted from the outside world

Martin | May 27, 2016 | Features, History

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 […]

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The wretched month of May

Martin | May 21, 2015 | Features, History

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 […]

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