James Cordy-Redden (Loveday 2011) has been selected for the full England sevens squad for the 2015-16 IRB World Sevens Series […]
Cordy-Redden lands England Sevens contract
The final days of Tertius Last
On April 26 1915, Harold Haile ‘Tertius’ Last (East 1905) died at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in London from injuries received in Belgium the previous month. He was 22 and was the tenth Old Cranleighan to have died in the nine months of the war to that point […]
Historian portrays Napoleon’s softer side
World renowned historian and broadcaster, Andrew Roberts (East 1981), returned to Cranleigh last week with a fascinating presentation on Napoleon […]
Tragedy in the Sahara
Sixty years ago this month a failed Kenyan coffee planter and three associates set out from Nairobi in a Morris Traveller to drive across Africa, through the Sahara Desert and Europe to London. The poorly planned expedition was to end in failure and the death of Alan ‘Sweetie’ Cooper (East 1926).
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Cranleigh’s Halford Hewitt Heroics
11 April was a red letter day for our golfers. We reached the quarter-finals of the Halford Hewitt for the first time for many years. This was after victories over Blundell’s (3-2), Harrow (3-2) and Downside (4-1). We then lost a desperately close match against Watson’s by 3 matches to 2, denied by a 15-foot […]
OC DINNER 2015 – TIME-LIMITED SPECIAL OFFER
Dear OCs Having first been held in 1882, the OC Society Dinner has become a regular feature on the OC calendar. This year, the Dinner is being held at the Winchester House Club on the banks of the River Thames in Putney on 15 May 2015 and will be co-chaired by Mike Wilson, the Headmaster […]
AfterParty A Cappella
Tom Lyle (Loveday 2003-2008) is part of a fresh new London-based a cappella group named AfterParty. The singers do not receive a wage for their performances, they are all employed/in education. They are proud to have performed in aid of several charities over the last couple of years. They are most proud of their partnership […]
Our Old Cranleighan Centenarian dies
Mike Payne writes: Peter Wightman-Mountain (East, 1928-31), whose 100th birthday was last 30 June, has died peacefully in his sleep after only two days in bed. He was only the second OC centenarian to my knowledge, the first being Percy Bradley who died many years ago at the age of 107. He was the only living […]
South West Lunch
Christopher Phillips writes: Once again the annual OC South West lunch was held on 25 March at the Flintlock Inn in Marsh, Devon. This is the third year we have gathered here and lunch was as good as ever. Seventeen sat down including the ever welcome Mike Payne. The raffle raised £120 in aid of […]
The 2015 Halford Hewitt
The Halford Hewitt has been described by the golf writer Nick Tremayne as “the greatest of all truly amateur tournament”. Founded in 1924 it is competed for today by the old boys of 64 English and Scottish public schools which each field five foursomes pairs, making 640 competitors in all. The sheer size of the […]