London Provincial Tax Office
I worked for the London Provincial Tax Office in the mid 1960s dealing with the tax affairs of employees of some of the big London shops. I used to get off the train at Knott Mill and walk to the office. I went back about five years ago and found that I could no longer recognise the place and could not even begin to get my bearings!
The office was big and bustling. I remember Mr Topham who was an ex policeman and Gordon Collinge who went into the music industry some time later and I think is still active in the brass band world. I used to get my hair cut in the barbers in an adjacent street. I was too young to understand at the time but it was where I first heard customers being asked if they wanted "Something for the weekend?"
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RE: RE: London Provincial Tax Office
My grandad worked there too. It was a lovely building.
Comment from Gary Taylor on Wednesday, 2nd February 2011.
RE: RE: London Provincial Tax Office
Would that be Deansgate and Knot Mill station? I used to get off there when I caught the train from the Navigation Road station on the Timperley / Altrincham line.
In the mid sixties I worked in a branch of the Bank of England in King Street. Like you I have returned to Manchester and got lost as so many new developments have replaced the old buildings.
Comment from John Howard Norfolk on Saturday, 2nd July 2011.