
Who We Are
- Folkestone Driving School, a branch of The Big Red L Company, is a driving school that only uses top-graded instructors to enable you to pass quickly and without spending money on extra driving tests. We currently give driving lessons in the area around Folkestone and Hythe.
- Folkestone Driving School offers normal driving lessons and intensive or crash courses. Not sure which you want? Learn more here.
- Tony Simcock, instructor at Folkestone Driving School, is rated among the top 2% of driving instructors in the country.
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Intensive driving courses?
Our intensive courses are designed so you pass your driving test in a matter of weeks from when you contact us. If you fail your first test we'll pay for your second.
Driving Lessons
Want regular driving lessons? We have been giving driving lessons in Folkestone since 1990. We only use high-grade instructors which means you will potentially spend less and pass sooner.

Watch our company give a famous celebrity his first driving lessons...
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Tony Simcock
Folkestone Driving School is run by Tony Simcock, founder of the The Big Red L Company. Tony has been hand-picked for decades to be a driving instructor for individuals and companies. From university pupils to the British Army, from van-fleets to the BBC. Tony has seen almost it all. His mission is “to eradicate shoddy driving from the planet.”
Check out one of his typically hilarious experiences of being a driving instructor.
Tony has franchised other driving instructors for years, and has managed a team of experienced ADI’s that covered much of Kent.
In his spare time Tony is trustee of Seapoint Canoe Centre and Chair of Trustees for Asha Kiran – a special needs school and vocational training centre in Bangalore, India.

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Oh not the brother!
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Confessions of a Driving School Employee
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Why We Drink and Drive
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When is the best time to learn to drive?
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Pirates, Bicycles and Driving Lessons
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Motorwayaphobia
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Blame the Examiner!
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Regular or Intensive Driving Courses?
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The mysterious case of the missing pupil.
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Stories of a Driving Instructor