Cranleigh School Archives @CS1865
Looking back at the history of Cranleigh School since 1865 cranleigh.org/1865/ Cranleigh, England Joined June 2016-
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Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey was chairman of the Cranleigh Council and gifted the science block to the School in 1912 (below), a statement of confidence less than 18 months after the Council had considered closing Cranleigh due to lack of pupils. It is now the new Common Room
Built in 1936 as a tuck shop, the Outdoor Ed centre became a home for the evacuated Carn Brae prep school from 1939 to 1945 (the tuck shop moved to a hut on the North Field never to return). It was converted into an art school in 1955 and is the new home for the archives
The only picture I have been able to find of the Four Elms on Smithwood Common, for over a century the pub frequently used by the boys - convenient and isolated with escape routes aplenty should a teacher decide to visit! It sadly shut in the 1990s and is now private houses.
The 1995 renovation of the East dormitories in the oldest part of the School won several architectural awards
Aerial picture of the School from 2003 showing the much-missed outdoor pool. West (now Rhodes) was a new build with the old works storage opposite and the very left the old squash courts, now part of the VHC
We are sorry to report that former Director of Music Jared Armstrong (MCR 1954-1967) died earlier this month at the age of 98. He was the last master to be appointed by David Loveday (HM 1931-1954)
The School around 1910 with the newly built Merriman Block on the right. The large path led to House, the forerunner of @CranleighPrep, and the sloping South Field was still used for football
The School from Horseshoe Lane around 1875. The original Fives courts are at the end of the Chapel. These were moved when the Merriman Block was built in 1906
The Headmaster's House as it was in about 1914. This is now the East housemaster's residence. The buildings to the left of the picture were demolished in 1926-27 to make way for the Connaught Block
Gatley's Farm in 1947, the year it was bought by the School. It remained a farm until 1971 and from 1972 was the Sixth Form Centre until it became part of @LovedayHouse in 1999
Loveday being built during the winter of 1979-80. It opened at the start of the Michaelmas Term 1980
An advertising booklet for Cranleigh from the turn of the century which labels it, somewhat adventurously, as "Switzerland in Surrey"
The Common Room in 1980. Erected as a "temporary" solution to the school's need for more space in 1919, it was the Common Room until 1985 when it became the buttery and finally Gatley's tuck shop. It was demolished one year shy of its centenary
Chapel 1980 - Charles Macdonald teaching the organ to Mark Shepherd on the 1977 organ which preceded - and was completely dwarfed - by the 2010 Mander organ
Almost 65 years ago but unchanged other than some more trees and a complete absence of parked cars ... the road past the front of the school in the summer of 1959
The early stages of the building of the Connaught Block and Speech Hall with the half-finished Head's house to the rear - 1927. The buildings were finished in 1929
The Rhodes Block (now Woodyer Art Studios) in 1979. The white car belonged to part-time fireman John Lowry who left it there so if he got an emergency call he could jump out of his bottom-floor window and get a flying start to the fire station
An aerial picture of the 1965 Centenary Fete with captions as to what the buildings were and what changes there have been
Current parents looks away ... a receipt for payment of the fees for the Michaelmas term of 1923 ... £44 17s 3d, including extras!
1980 ... the view towards the School from beyond Pickup. That pitch and Marcon were still redgras while Lintotts was a sloping grass rugby pitch which had only been opened a few years earlier

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