Joe Clough

{{Short description|First Black bus driver in London}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Joe Clough

| birth_name = Joseph Alan Clough

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1885|11|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kingston, Jamaica

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|12|27|1885|11|10|df=y}}

| death_place = Bedford, Bedfordshire, England

| known_for = First Black bus driver in London

}}

Joe Clough (10 November 1885 – 27 December 1976) was a taxi and bus driver.

Clough was the first Black bus driver in London.{{Cite web|title=Joseph Clough: London's first Black bus driver|url=https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/stories/people/joseph-clough-londons-first-black-bus-driver|url-status=live|access-date=9 November 2021|website=London Transport Museum|archive-date=5 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210705104957/https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/stories/people/joseph-clough-londons-first-black-bus-driver}} In 2021, a play written by Neil Gore about Clough's life debuted at The Place Theatre in Bedford.{{Cite news|last=Hutchinson|first=Laura|date=17 May 2021|title=Britain's first black bus driver was Bedford's Joe Clough - who is being celebrated in a new play|work=Bedford Today|url=https://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/arts-and-culture/theatre-and-stage/britains-first-black-bus-driver-was-bedfords-joe-clough-who-is-being-celebrated-in-a-new-play-3240093|access-date=9 November 2021|archive-date=4 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104002828/https://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/arts-and-culture/theatre-and-stage/britains-first-black-bus-driver-was-bedfords-joe-clough-who-is-being-celebrated-in-a-new-play-3240093|url-status=live}}