In Popular Culture
- David Storey's Booker Prize winning novel Saville (1976) includes an account of the experiences of a working class boy at a Yorkshire grammar school in the 1940s. Storey, like the protagonist of Saville a miner's son, is an old boy of QEGS.
- The school is mentioned in the novel Nineteen Seventy-Four by David Peace.
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