Old driving instructors and lessons!!!

[loobylou2008]

i had this guy.. colin was brilliant and a lovely guy.such a nasty and terrible end for this gentleman R.I.P col xx

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/BREAKING-NEWS-Murder-accused-appears.5700348.jp

Edited October 10, 2009 by loobylou2008

[loobylou2008]

did anyone have the instructor from bsm called graham bibby? he was fantastic!!!!

Edited October 10, 2009 by loobylou2008

[just moi]

I didnt have any lessons,passed 3 week after my 17th, bike a week later.But someones got to feed their kids, but then theres loads of women learning nowadays

[Vague_Boy]

i had this guy.. colin was brilliant and a lovely guy.such a nasty and terrible end for this gentleman R.I.P col xx

http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/BREAKING-NEWS-Murder-accused-appears.5700348.jp

 

I had lessons with Colin some 20 odd years ago. A real character, hugely likable. I was shocked to see his name appear in the papers as a murder victim.

 

May you rest in peace sir, after such a long and fruitful life, you did not deserve to have it end like that.

[Ruby2]

i took my lessons with colin fish , around 1971 ish , passed third time after 20 odd lessons in a blue morris marina , 19 shillings a lesson , then it went up to a pound just after decimiliation ..... right fiddle !! .

 

I couldn't believe the tragic news about Colin Fish - how terribly sad. Colin taught me to drive in 1973 and I passed first time at Handsworth Test Centre on a Friday afternoon. I had most of my lessons in a Ford Cortina Mk 3 (very Gene Hunt, Life on Mars), then he bought a mini - so I took my test in that. Colin had a story about everything. He also had two other instructors working for him - an older one (I think with glasses) and younger guy (who I quite fancied at the time!)

 

Colin instilled a real responsibility into his students - I can't remember how many times he said that the car was a lethal weapon (obviously he was describing other people driving!)

[echo beach]

HI IV'E BEEN DRIVING 70 YEARS AND NEVER HAD A TEST, NOW HOW DO YOU THINK THAT HAPPENED, ALSO ONLY 2 OFFENCES', 1 FOR SPEEDING,/ 1 CAUGHT CREEPING THROUGH A HALT SIGN , I WOULD THINK THIS MUST BE SOME SORT OF RECORD ANYONE BEAT IT. [ bragger] ARTHUR.

 

My Dad never took a driving test - just applied for a licence in 1932 - and drove for 65 years without picking up any points or endorsements. He was one of the best drivers I have ever been in a car with and even my friends commented on his ability.

I can't remember the name of my driving instructor but he was a " one man band " who had two Minis, one of which was a pick up truck! My lessons used to start at the Midland Station at the teatime rush hour which was hair raising even in 1962.

Passed first time at the Sharrow Lane test centre , having had 10 lessons and lots of practice in my parents' car, 12 weeks after my 17th birthday. I drove, as a novice, from Sheffield to college in Chesterfield all through that atrocious winter of 1962/63.

I subsequently had a P/T job as a driving instructor with Tindall's School of Motoring on Richmond Park Ave, Handsworth in 1965/66. Anyone remember that?

[LISA L]

My instructor was the late, great Larry Logan (who also taught both my brothers).

 

Very much 'old school', his lessons were an absolute pleasure. He was foul mouthed and sometimes racist but he was also very funny.

 

Nearly every lesson would see me having to stop outside a beer-off so he could buy his large bottles of beer (2 and 3 litre plastic bottles, tasteless no doubt but very cheap also).

 

He had loads of sayings: "Hug this corner like you would your girlfriend." He'd then reply to his own comments as if it were I saying it "Oh, but I haven't got a f-in girlfriend!" He'd also say we'd better get to the Hallamshire Hospital A & E as I had just burnt his arm off driving too close to a parked car.

 

We'd do three point turns but whilst in mid-flow he'd tell me to put the handbrake on whilst he told me all about his daughter Lisa (whom I knew from school) and the things she had got up to last night "calling me a f-in pig, the cow." Traffic would build up either side but was he bothered?

 

His car would be full of smoke (he was a chain smoker) and lessons cost £8 (this was 1986/7). The sod never quite told me when I was ready for my test and so I had more lessons that I should have, but they were fun.

 

I took my test in May 1987 and passed first time. I felt liberated (as one does when passing a driving test) but also quite sad because that ended our association. I saw him a few times in the Rising Sun, Nethergreen but was saddened to hear that he passed away a couple or three years back.

 

yep, that `was ``Grampa`( Larry) he was quite a character!!! He was a bloody good driving instructor,The Best! He taught all his family to drive including me ( daughter Lisa ) and my partner of 24 yrs. Sadly he didnt live long enough to teach our children. people still come up to us and talk about my Dad, and its lovely that they remember him with such affection, remembering his stories and all his funny sayings. Larry is gone, BUT, will NEVER be forgotten.xxx Larry Logan 1923-2000 xxx

[grannie-anni]

My driving instructor was Bert Fell and I passed first time in thick fog at Handsworth on December 1971. Still remember things he taught me.

[Hague]

that man was my dad! i had the ferraris then...................

 

and yes, he always gave more than an hour to EVERYONE, that's why we had to go to bloody butlin's for holidays while the other instructor's families went to Spain or somewhere exotic (for those days!)!

 

he really enjoyed it tho, and I passed first time so can't complain!

 

I think this instructor was my uncle ted he was a club singer as well my aunt minnie was his sister and my mum May Hague my cousin mary is aunty minnies daughter she is about my age

[Jomie]

Took mine at Sharrow Test Centre - can't remember if it was 1969 or 1970. I do remember that I had exactly thirty one hour lessons at 25 shillings each. I had no other practise as nobody in my family had a car. Luckily I passed first time.