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4 unusual facts about Belper School


Belper School

Prof David Leslie Hawksworth CBE, mycologist and lichenologist, Research Professor since 2001 at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid), President from 1986-7 of the British Lichen Society, from 1990-1 of the British Mycological Society and from 1994-7 of the International Union of Biological Sciences, and Editor from 200-8 of Mycological Research

Thorntons, the confectionery company once based in the town of Belper became major sponsors.

Support from Thorntons and other local firms has helped the school remodel most of its accommodation to suit an 11-18 school population.

It is also located very near to the Vaillant-owned Glow-Worm boiler factory and the former Deb factory, which has since been demolished and had housing built on it.


Mike Ingham

He grew up in Duffield and Quarndon (home to Brian Clough), and attended The Herbert Strutt School (became the comprehensive Belper School in 1973) in Belper, then a grammar school.


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