Mr John Lucas died in May 1935 and was buried in Apethorpe churchyard.
The company was taken over by Lewis Samworth, who had been employed by
the company from the age of seventeen as an apprentice carpenter and
then moving into the office to help with the running of the business.
Lewis Samworth was a sidesman at Peterborough Cathedral for seventy
years before his death on 30th September
2004.
In 1980 he
received an M.B.E. for fifty years service to the Cathedral and the
community.
The company is
still owned by the Samworth family.
In the past John Lucas (Peterborough) Limited built a number of
properties in and around Peterborough, including many public houses and
churches:
The Northfield Inn, Northfield Road, The Fox and Hounds at Longthorpe,
The City Arms, St Johns Street, The Royal Arms, Eye Road, The Norfolk
(now the property shop) in Lincoln Road, The Comet, Elmfield Road.
St Oswalds Roman Catholic Church, Lincoln Road, Our Lady Of Lourdes
Church, Welland Road, Dogsthorpe Methodist Church, Birchtree Avenue,
Christchurch,
Central Avenue
and St. Judes Church in Westwood.
Peterborough’s first Technical College in Broadway (which is now The
College Arms public house) was also built by the company together with
several private houses in the area.