Recent content by Martyn Smith

I was only 15 when my mum left in '84 so I only ever had a child's understanding of it, but it seemed to me that Lucas was always about to tilt over into financial meltdown; it always seemed to be struggling. The site is now a Lidl. It's strange, as a child I always longed to visit the plant...

What always intrigued me about the Lucas site was how it was composed of two such completely different buildings. There was the art deco-ish part on the right and the steel and glass part on the left. Does anyone know why that was?

Lucas also had another factory on the other side of the road, between Mere Green Road and the tennis courts; where Sainsbury's now stands, although all that was knocked down in the mid-late 80s

My mother worked the evening shift there 6-10 p.m. from about '74-'84. She painted a protective layer on I think semiconductor chips. She wanted a higher position but management were quite frank that she would need to sleep with people to get it...