Over 90 Old Cranleighans attended and thoroughly enjoyed the Over 70s Reunion at the School on Sunday 28 April. Lunch followed coffee and then drinks in a packed Reading Room, and many stayed on for a tour of the School or tea or both. Many thanks to Brian Cole for a lot of invaluable coordinating. […]
The 2013 Old Cranleighan Dinner was held on April 26 on the SS Elizabethan, a replica of an 1890’s Mississippi Stern-Wheeled Paddle Steamer, which transported 140 OC diners and dancers down the Thames from Westminster Pier to beyond Tower Bridge and back. It really was an event with a difference which was originally the inspired […]
The Old Cranleighans reached the third round of the 2013 Halford Hewitt, our best performance in more than two decades, beating Haileybury and Cheltenham before losing to 17-time winners Charterhouse 3-2. The following report from Marcus Ferguson Jones appeared on the OCGS website: We beat Haileybury comfortably. We made slightly heavier weather of Cheltenham than […]
An excellent season for the two OC clubs based at Thames Ditton is concluding with success for both the OC hockey and rugby sections. The OC Rugby Club are on the verge of a double promotion after finishing second in Surrey Division One after putting together a run of ten straight wins at the end […]
Former racing commentator John Penney (2&3 South 1946) has died at the age of 86. Penney enjoyed a varied career. Assistant to trainer Neville Crump in 1948-49, he held a jumps licence himself from 1952-54 before going on to a journalistic and broadcasting career. He worked for several newspapers in his time, as well as […]
The modern British public would not regard being accused of committing adultery with the Queen’s sister as damaging to a man’s reputation, the High Court was told yesterday. Lawyers for Jacqueline Gold, the owner of the Ann Summers chain of sex shops, are fighting a £500,000 libel case brought by Michael Caborn-Waterfield (East 1946) the […]
Nick Meyer (2&3 South, 1962) writes: It is 15 years since I took up the reins of Chairman of the Old Cranleighan Society. On the whole, it has been a period of time of immense satisfaction, some frustration, great enjoyment and, at times, the pangs of disappointment have been felt. During the period of time […]
Henry Casswell is an almost forgotten figure in Cranleigh history – in Alan Megahey’s History of Cranleigh School he warranted one passing mention – and yet aside from Joseph Merriman, the first headmaster, no single figure made more impact on the early life of Cranleigh and the Old Cranleighans. Casswell was born in Lincolnshire into an established […]
Tom Petzold (East, 2004) writes: This year, along with two other Old Cranleighans, Luke Marazzi (East, 2007) and James Bowey (Cubitt, 2010), I started work as a first officer flying the 737 for Ryanair and would like to share with those who have similar ambitions, our routes to becoming an airline pilot. After leaving Cranleigh, […]
Congratulations to Henry Lamont (East, 2012) on winning his Blue for Oxford University in the Varsity match at Twickenham on December 6. At the time of the game he was aged 18 years 7 months and was the only undergraduate in the side. In the game itself Oxford produced a dramatic second-half comeback to complete […]
