Colin Howard (2 North 1968) was a music scholar at Cranleigh. In November he conducted the Dorchester Choral Society in a performance of Derek Bourgeois’s (2&3 South 1959) Jabberwocky which was written to commemorate the centenary of the School in 1965. Several OCs attended the recital and whilst Colin describes it as a challenging yet […]
Frank Dove, who came to Cranleigh in 1910 and left in July 1915, was one of the first black pupils at the School. He was a successful sportsman at Cranleigh and was in the 1st XI for football and cricket and was Hon Secretary of both sports. He was also one of the two gymnasts […]
Simon Cooper (2 North 1982), shares some thoughts on his diagnosis and a report of their extraordinary ride: “Being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease at 52 is unusual, but by no means unheard of. Like many, previously I had thought it was just about being shaky (which I’m not in fact) whereas you actually quickly learn […]
New OC Sean Hope (East 2022) has displayed talent in the kitchen from a young age. He has been lucky enough to hone his skills with mentoring from Michelin starred chef, Ollie Dabbous (2&3 South 1999), at his London restaurant HIDE. At the end of term Sean cooked a four-course meal for everyone in his […]
On a beautiful spring evening last Thursday, London’s Soho Square bore witness to the renaissance of OC Business Forum (formerly OC City Society) as over 60 OCs from across the generations and business disciplines piled into the House of Barnabas for drinks and canapés. No OC event, in our opinion, is complete without the indomitable […]
High streets are ever changing, all the more so in recent years as rising rents drive out independents and online shopping becomes an increasing part of life. The pandemic caused a seismic shift in their appearance with many household names disappearing forever. In 2021, Mann’s and the Cromwell Cottage Café, two features of the village […]
At the end of December Mike Payne stepped down as OC Liaison, a role he had filled with good humour and boundless energy since it was created in 1997. It is almost impossible to list all Mike brought to a position that had almost no job description when he took it on. The OC Society […]
Jess Robinson (South 2018), who is in her third year as a Mechanical Engineer at the University of Nottingham, talks about how the OC Network helped her find an internship that was right up her street. One of the impacts of the pandemic was that the job market became increasingly restricted. Often the last thing […]
While building his own business development consultancy during the depths of the pandemic, Rupert Lane (1 North 1987) joined a number of professional online communities where he received unprecedented levels of help, collaboration and support from other business owners. Realising that the increased goodwill experienced in everyday life was now spilling into the corporate world, […]
The intention is to expand their concerts across Surrey and to bring diversity of musical and cultural genre to the platform and the audience. They recently coordinated a concert at the Purcell Room in London to showcase music by a Trinidadian composer Dominique Le Gendre, it was performed by Chineke (the first professional orchestra in […]