On Saturday 3rd August 2019, Nick Kelly (Loveday 2013), Freddie Wright and Will Slynn (Cubitt, 2013) took part in the Tallinn Ironman. After six months of intense training they set off for Estonia to take part in this event which involved a 2.4 mile open water swim, a 112 mile bike ride, followed by a […]
Ellie Good (1 North 1997) has always been the most creative of people. We asked her to write about her artistic passions and explain how her business, Ellie Good Illustration, adopts an eco-friendly approach, and talk about her latest venture, The Shift. “Until I came to Cranleigh, pursuing art at higher education wasn’t really on […]
In 1982 Steve Braham (East 1977), along with three other Cranleighans – Will Travers, Hugh Robinson and Dave Higgs – set off in a Land Rover to Africa on a journey that would change his life for ever . He never returned to the UK, but settled in South Africa where he married and had […]
Jonathan Hennessey-Brown (2&3 South 1993) has been working as a professional cellist since he graduated from the Royal College of Music in 1997. This has taken him across the world and he has worked with artists from Placido Domingo to Little Mix. He has also appeared on TV and radio Now he has changed direction […]
As is now traditional, the transition from Cranleighan to (almost) OC for the current UVIth took place at a lunch the day before Long Leave in May. Cat Staples (Loveday, 1999-2001 and current CPS) welcomed them as OCs with some very wise words: “Nearly 20 years ago I was sat in your place listening to […]
We are delighted to invite you to the inaugural Cranleigh Friends’ candlelit Christmas Carol Service for friends of Cranleigh and OCs at the Chapel on Sunday 8th December. Cranleigh Friends embraces all sections of the Cranleigh School family – parents, parents of OCs, OCs, former staff and our neighbours so that they can meet one […]
The OCRFC Centenary approaches! Arrangements for the dinner (& dance) at Twickenham on Saturday 14th September 2019 proceed apace and tables are selling fast. The ticket price includes champagne reception, three-course meal and wine, live music, entertainers and more. Various kind and generous sponsors are offering to help with various bits, but of course if […]
This month marks 100 years since Cranleigh School played their first hockey match. We look at the highs and lows of the last century. Although it may upset the rugby fraternity, the first game of hockey played by Cranleigh pre-dates the arrival of rugby by almost a decade. The Cranleighan reported in 1906 that the School beat […]
The OCHC have continued their run of recent successes with the men’s 1st XI gaining promotion to the National League for the first time, as well as reaching the quarter-final of the EH Cup after beating a heavily-funded Old Georgians side on the way in front of a bumper crowd at Thames Ditton. The club […]
NABIL NAHAR ART COMMISSION £4000 (including expenses) offered to successful applicant Nabil Nahar OC died tragically young in 2018 aged 45. At School his interests lay in the arts and as a businessman he acted as an art broker, running his own art gallery in Kuala Lumpa. His OC friends came up with idea of […]