Lomas Sam

Sam Lomas

Lomas was born in February 1930 and educated at a local elementary school in Stoke-on-Trent.

He became a bricklayer and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Young Communist League in his youth.

He stood as a Communist Party candidate in Stoke South at the 1966 general election, securing a highly creditable 5.1% of the total with 2,262 votes.

For a long time, he worked for the Stoke city council works department, a traditional hotbed of local left wing politics.

 

He stood several times as a Communist Party candidate in the Stoke South constituency. At the March 1966 general election, he secured a highly creditable 5.1% of the total with 2,262 votes.