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Colin Gibb
Early Years.

Born; Colin Routh, 8th December 1953 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. the son of typical ‘working class’ Parents, my farther (Norman) was a bus driver, from leaving the army, after the war, and then latter, a long distance lorry driver, and my mother (Hannah), took a job as a ‘Clippie’ (Bus conductress) after emigrating from Waterford in Southern Ireland.

As a child, Gibb attended ‘Iverson House primary school in Leeds and then on to ‘Moor Grange' secondary school. After leaving school in 1970, He started work as an apprentice 'Lift Engineer' for Leeds city council and attended ‘Kitson collage of engineering and science'