Lucas Brothers, Builders

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Charles Thomas [1820-1895] and Thomas Lucas [1822-1902] sons of James Lucas [1792-1865] Builder, of St Pancras, London started work on the Liverpool Street to Norwich railway, working for Sir Samuel Morton Peto and progressed to rebuilding his house, Somerleyton as well as his Lowestoft project, including the railway, the station, the Esplanade, St John’s church and several hotels. At their works in Lowestoft they pre-fabricated huts for the Brassey/Peto navvies who built the Crimea railway. Their centre then moved to London where they built:

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[edit] Railways

With Sir John Kelk, the first underground Metropolitan District Railway. The Hull to Barnsley, Kettering to Manton and the Tottenham to Forest Gate extension. The West Highland Railway with Sir John Aird as well as working on the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, The East London Line and The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the aborted rail link in Egypt from Suakim to Berber.

[edit] Docks

As Lucas and Aird they built the Royal Victoria Docks, Millwall Docks, Tilbury Docks and the Royal Albert Docks.

[edit] London railway stations and hotels

Liverpool Street Station and the Great Eastern Hotel, Charing Cross station and Hotel, London Bridge station and the Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street railway station and The City Terminus Hotel, Blackfriars Bridge, Hungerford Railway Bridge, Cannon Street Railway Bridge.

Outside London they built York railway station as well as Norwich and Lowestoft.

[edit] Buildings

Perhaps their most famous building contract was the Royal Albert Hall although as well as that they built Covent Garden Opera House and the Floral Hall, King's College Hospital, Charterhouse School, The Junior Carlton Club, The Alexandra Palace, The Star and Garter Home at Richmond, Woolwich Arsenal and Colchester Army camp as well as work at Aldershot and Shorncliffe. Private houses included Cliveden, Henham, Rendlesham and Normanhurst and the South Kensington Exhibitions of 1867 and 1871 with Sir John Kelk.

[edit] Biography

Charles Thomas married Charlotte Tiffin and had five sons and two daughters. Thomas [later Sir, knighted 1887] married 1st Jane Golder and had a daughter and then after her death, married 2nd Mary Amelia Chamberlin, daughter of Robert Chamberlin of Norwich and had six sons and four daughters. Charles Thomas lived in London and then at Warnham in Sussex, Sir Thomas lived in London, Ascot and briefly at Ashtead in Surrey.

[edit] References

  • The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  • Burke's Peerage
  • The Civil Engineer
  • The Master Builders by Robert Middlemas,
  • Sir Samuel Morton Peto by Rev Dr Edward C Brooks.
  • Deptford, Toronto and Kingston by Peter Stirling-Aird
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