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Joe Clough was born in Jamaica in 1887.
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In 1905 the doctor he was driving home asked him if he wanted to go to England and he said yes.
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Dr White took him to London, where Joe would drive him around in a carriage with horses. Later on, motorcars became popular, and so Joe learned to drive so that he could be the doctor's chauffeur.
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Joe Clough born in 1887 and first started driving buses sometime in 1906.
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He arrived in Britain in 1906 and had travelled over from Jamaica with Dr White, and was to become the first black man ever to drive a motorbus in London.
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Soon after having passed the driving test, Joe was driving a B-type bus.
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In 1908 Clough applied to work at London General Omnibus Company and became a spare driver.
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Joe married his wife Margaret in 1911.
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Joe held a driving record for several years until he was suspended for speeding at a speed of 28 miles per hour.
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Joe enlisted in the Army Service Corps at Kempston barracks in 1915. He drove a field ambulance for four years in the Ypres area.
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It was inevitable that some day someone in a position to cause a problem would object to the color of Joe's skin.
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Joe was demobbed in 1919, and started work for the Eastern National Omnibus Company in a placement that his wife had secured for him, and which he kept for the next 29 years.
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Later on in the 1930's Joe had driven on several of the routes in the area, and was instructing learner bus drivers.
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Joe left his job as a bus driver and started work for a truck contractor.
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Joe bought a taxi cab.
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Joe retired from his job as a taxi driver when he was 82 years old.
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Joe's wife Margaret passed away in 1975
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Joe himself died in two years later at the age of 91.
