Ask for James. Me and my sister have both been driving with him and successfully got out restricteds on out 1st attempts :) he is lovely and friendly and a great professional teacher. I seriously recommend him to all of my friends who are nervous about driving to go with him. Read Less

Very disappointing (and potentially damaging/dangerous) experience for my step-daughter. Driving her own car - purchased from her mum - a tiny 1.0 litre, 3 cylinder, hatchback, 5-speed manual (with inevitably tall gearing), our daughter was instructed to make 90 degree, left turns, off the likes of a residential road into a side road in THIRD gear! Obviously the car laboured to do this, which is potentially very damaging to the internals of the engine. When she began to make the turns faster to avoid the engine labouring so badly, she then felt unsafe but the instructor seemed oblivious to the increased level of risk and merely said, 'There, that sounded better'. Worse still, she was told that if she made a right angle turn in second gear, the testing officer would fail her for being in the wrong gear! She experienced the same issue traversing a very steep uphill turn (that we always use first gear for) and was forced to make the car labour upwards in second gear. Daughter was not an absolute beginner, by the way, but had been receiving instruction from her mother and I in that same car, on and off, for some time. And to give some perspective, I have been driving for almost 40 years ...which isn't always a good thing, of course. But I was a Ministry of Transport Traffic Officer when I was in my early twenties - including holding a testing officers warrant - and I then spent a dozen years working as a high-level chauffeur, during which time I attended almost every advanced driving course available in the country, on my own insistence (to stay sharp), and at my employers expense. Our daughter's supposedly formal/qualified driving LESSONS(!) were merely to begin the process of preparation for the practical test, and to gain input from a supposedly experienced source, as well as to concentrate on things like parallel parking and suchlike, which we have been struggling to make time for. On the plus side, our daughter did find the parking instruction very useful. However, on balance, we certainly cannot recommend this instructor (James) based on the experiences of these two lessons. We will be finding another driving school, so that we do not have to go out and find another car. Let alone another daughter! Read Less