Driving test routes in Bradford

This might help
https://intensivelessons.co.uk/driving-test-routes/West-Yorkshire/Bradford-Thornbury

It'll be a breeze for him, he's an Essex lad

 

Can't be sure how accurate this video is

 

Found these online, also youtube might be worth a look.
https://www.drivingtestroutesapp.co.uk/
https://intensivelessons.co.uk/driving-test-routes/West-Yorkshire/Bradford-Thornbury

Cross posted with @Interested Bystander

 

Great minds etc.......

 

If the route includes Barker end I pity him... not even Essex can prepare him for what is basically target practice

 

looking at those routes they are for the old Eccleshill test centre off Victoria Road rather than Thornbury

 

He’ll need this.

 

This is Bradford we're talking about, a place like no other when it comes to driving. If the lad can pass here he can drive anywhere.thay includes India and Italy

 

My old stopping ground, good luck to the lad taking your driving test in Bradford in this day and age you need nerves of steel, hopefully he won't need to go anywhere Santa Pod (Leeds Road).

 

That's Thornbury roundabout he negotiates in the first few minutes of that video, down past the what was The Junction on the left then what was The Farmers Pub now Lala's on the right and down to Dawson's Corner.

 

I always think its handy If you know all the potential routes and familiar with the area.

I passed in 1978 from Eccleshill, living in Idle, I thought helped me as knew the whole area like the back of my hand and could anticipate what was coming in terms of junctions and hills etc.

I wish your nephew very good luck

 

At the time of taking my first driving test I took it from Wibsey as I lived on the doorstep of the driving test centre (Brownroyd Hill) so I was more that familiar with the route and possible problem areas, bearing in mine I'd been a Derek Trotter driver for several years, which in those days you could drive on a motor cycle licence.
After failing I put straight in for an early retest and was given Eccleshill (Victoria Road) I believe, the first obstacle was the The White Heart junction which I made a complete mess of as a car came flying round the bend, I though well that's me failed, on completing the driving part the instructor open his book with the road signs in asked my 5/6 questions then pronounced "Congratulations you meet the required driving standard) I couldn't believe what I was hearing, as I'd convinced myself after that junction screw up I'd automatically failed.

 

I remember doing my test at the Eccleshill centre as an 18 year old. Passed 1st time but I think he went a bit easy on me. My parallel park wasn't the greatest in the days before parking sensors and cameras. You kids today don't know you're bloody born.

 

Took my test up at Wibsey, remember it well. Jan 2nd 1976, it had been snowing overnight and the tests before mine had been cancelled. My instructor was a chain smoker called Derek and his car was a Moskvitch, built like a tank, but noisier. Morning of my test he rang to say it had broken down but he had managed to borrow a car for my test. He turned up with a little Datsun Cherry which, after the Moskvitch, was so, so easy to drive and I sailed through the test. Happy days!

 

I took my motorbike test at Wibsey in 1971 on a very unreliable BSA 250.
It broke down half way through, test voided and had to push it home to Bradford Moor.
Character building times.