The School’s 1st XV won every match this season, only the sixth time in the 109 years Cranleigh has been playing rugby the side has finished with a 100% record […]
A sixth unbeaten season
A truly special event
There’s nothing more festive than singing carols together, and with Cranleigh School’s Chapel lit by candlelight, and the beautiful voices of our Choir, the evening was truly magical and a real highlight in the Old Cranleighan diary […]
Gower give School tough games
The two Gower Club matches provided the best entertainment for quite some time. The 1st XV game was won 38-7 by the School in a contest closer than the scoreline suggests, while the 5th XV were defeated by the Gower side 31-22 […]
Connections and Kindness
Last Spring Max Foster (Cubitt 2020) walked from Lands End to John 0’Groats – on his own […]
Sports Round-Up – September 2024
A Paralympic silver medal for Greg Slade, Ollie Pope named England captain for the Test series v Sri Lanka, and Olympic appearances in Paris for Izzy Petter and Will Calnan […]
Cranleigh’s 11 Olympians
As Izzy Petter (2&3 South 2018) and Will Calnan (Cubitt 2014) take part in the Paris Olympics we look at the nine Cranleighans who became summer Olympians before them […]
D-Day forty years on
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 […]
‘We knew the invasion was about to begin’
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 […]
A tragic and futile incident
Much will be written in the coming days about those involved in the D-Day landings. Among the 1,449 British combatants who died on June 6th 1944 few stories are quite as sad as that of 24-year-old Private Philip Sargent […]
Sports round-up – May 2024
A round-up of the last few months of OC sport with success at Harlequins and a century of international caps for Izzy Petter […]