Intensive Driving Courses in Aldridge

Do you need to be on the road as a matter of urgency? Does your job rely on it? Are you starting University? Is your theory certificate about to expire?

Intensive Driving Courses Aldridge

DTC last minute intensive driving courses can help. We can arrange an emergency driving test in Birmingham within weeks. Not only a test but also a semi-intensive driving course to go with it. We cater for learner drivers and international drivers in the Aldridge and surrounding areas.

Intensive Driving Lessons Aldridge

You will be taught on a one to one basis in fully dual controlled and insured cars. All of the driving instructors are approved by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA). Furthermore, they are fully police checked and have regular assessments from the driving standards agency ensuring you that your instruction will be relevant and to the current requirements.

Intensive Driving Courses Aldridge

If you live in Aldridge, your driving test would normally be booked in or around the Aldridge area. Your last minute intensive driving course would also be conducted in the Aldridge area.

However, please note that driving examiners may take you to the surrounding towns and villages. The first choice for your last minute intensive driving course would be Aldridge.  However, there are other practical test centers in the area with may be used.

Below are the addresses of nearby local test centers –

Lichfield Practical Driving Test Center

Lower Sanford Street,
Lichfield,
WS13 6RB

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This test center provides these types of tests: car.

You can access this test center if you use a wheelchair.

Birmingham Practical Driving Test Center (Sutton Coldfield)

110 – 116 Boldmere Road,
Sutton Coldfield,
B73 5UB

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This test center provides these types of tests: car.

DVSA will make arrangements for you at this test center if you have a disability.

Wednesbury Practical Driving Test Center

Knowles Street,
Wednesbury,
WS10 9HN

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This test center provides these types of tests: car, ADI part 3.

You can access this test center if you use a wheelchair.

Wolverhampton Practical Driving Test Center

Spring Road, Spring Road Industrial Estate Ettingshall,
Wolverhampton,
WV4 6JX

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This test center provides these types of tests: car, motorcycle module 1 (off-road), motorcycle module 2 (on-road), ADI part 2, ADI part 3.

Aldridge is a town and former civic parish within Walsall Borough, in West Midlands, England. It was historically a village which was part of Staffordshire up to 1974. It is 3 miles (4.8 km) from Braunhills, 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Walsall, 6 miles (9.7 km) from Sutton Coldfield, and 7 miles (11 km) from Lichfield. Aldridge has a mix of public and private housing, a large shopping centre built in the 1960s, with reasonably high occupancy rates, and a number of industrial estates supporting heavy and light industry. The name “Aldridge” is from Anglo-Saxon alr or alre+wic, meaning alder (tree)+village.

Another suggestion is that the name “Aldridge” means “farm on a promontory, surrounded by alder trees”, derived from Old English alr and wic. It is recorded as Alrewic in Domesday Book 1086, when it was valued at 15s, with a population of seven households; the lord was Robert (dOilly) and the chief tenant was William, son of Ansculf. The name was recorded as Alrewich and Allerwych during the 12th century. Aldridge began as a small agricultural settlement, farming being the most common occupation up to the 19th century. In the 1800s, Aldridge became an industrial city, with coal pits and limekilns. The areas coal and clay encouraged many to establish coal pits and brickworks.

Aldridge clay was particularly helpful for making blue bricks. The census for 1881 shows the mines and the brickworks as major employers. Because the coal and clay under the east side of Aldridge (towards Stonnall) lay far below the surface, extracting that coal and clay would have been economically unfeasible. As a result, farms continued to dominate the eastern side, although a sand quarry was established, and remains, at Birch Lane.

In the 20th century, the town centre at Aldridge was built with modern shops, along with a Council House. After the Second World War, Aldridge became a town, or suburban, in suburban Birmingham. A small airport called Aldridge Airfield was used in World War II, after which it was used for passenger services. Aldridge became a township in Staffordshire in 1894.

Other villages in the district included Pelsall, Walsall Wood, Clayhanger, and Stally. These areas began to develop significantly from the 1930s, with the construction of privately owned houses, mostly purchased by families moving out from central Walsall. The town area of Aldridge was amalgamated with Brownhills in 1966, forming Aldridge-Brownhills, and later became part of an expanded Walsall Metropolitan Borough in 1974.