About us

Bath School of Motoring was founded in 1979 and Lanham’s Driving School established in 1963.

The two schools merged in 1993 and is now a Limited Company.

The three Directors are Gary Payne, Innes Baron & David Merrett.

Gary qualified as an instructor in 1980 under the guidance of his father whom started the school & together they ran the business.

In 1988 Gary took over the running of the School from his late father still teaching & keeping up the good name that had been established over the years.

The business has gradually expanded to the point where we have a central office managed by Sue Merrett. The school has a number of instructors both male & female covering a wide area but still teaching in their local areas. Gary does little in the way of teaching learners now but is still kept busy by monitoring the present instructors & also training new instructors.

Gary also does driver training & classroom presentations for various organisations.

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Qualifications

Innes Baron qualified as an Instructor in 1987 with the British School of Motoring and worked for them for three years gaining valuable experience of working with a large national company. In 1990 he joined us and by 1992 as he was such an asset he took up the offer of becoming a partner in the business. He is now a director in the company still teaching learner drivers but also doing other things in driver training.

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Qualifications

David Merrett qualified in 1999 with the Driving Instructor College and straight away joined the school bringing a fresh approach and modern techniques in teaching learners as well as Instructor Training. He soon took up the offer of partnership (2001) and helped towards expanding the business to become a director. (2003)

Also his wife Sue is Office manager.

David still teaches learners but just like Gary & Innes he is involved in lots of other forms of Driver Training as well as running the school monitoring & training the Instructors.