Finance including rate books This series includes the rate books for Tameside. Rate books dated 1975-1985 were destroyed under the Rating Office's permission due to a lack of storage space. Helpful hints for Tameside Rate Books Understanding the codes in the rate books: Property referenceshad several components and would begin with a letter A-Z e.g. X - Stalybridge The next 3 digits were the street reference (this allowed any street to have up to 999 streets) e.g. 239 - Huddersfield Road The next three digits were the house number e.g. 123 Then another two digits known as the sub codes could be used for a garage site at the rear of a particular address or to denote flat numbers in a divided house e.g. X23912301 = Flat A, 123 Huddersfield Road, Stalybridge or X23912399 = Garage 99 rear of 123 Huddersfield Road Stalybridge The penultimate digit is the leaver marker and would increase by one each time there was a new occupier of the property e.g. X239123014 would indicate that the flat had four previous occupiers since 1 April 1974 The final digit is a check digit, i.e. all the other numbers were added up, multiplied and divided by thirteen, the answer being the final digit of property reference which explains the inclusion of A, B and C e.g. X239123014C Description codes: A House B House and garage C House and car port D Bungalow E Bungalow and garage F Bungalow and car port? G Flat J Private garage K Shop and premises? L Shop and flat or house? P Office? T Petrol Station V Public house and premises Y Factory Z Something unusual, not in a standard description Rate code: D Domestic (where the hereditament / property is wholly domestic. This is less than commercial rates - propotions set by statute) F Full (where the hereditament / property has no domestic element, i.e. wholly commercial premises paying full rates) M Mixed (e.g. house and shop. At one time any hereditament that has commercial and domestic elements in the rateable value, latterly only hereditaments where the domestic element was greater than 50%) E Eighth (e.g. commercial premises, but more domestic than commercial, where the domestic element was less than 25% but more than 12.5%) Q Quarter of full amount (charge for commercial premises with large domestic element, where the domestic element was less than 50% but more than 25%) District codes: A St Peters B Portland Place C Market D St Michaels E Hurst East F Hurst West G Limehurst K Audenshaw L Denton M Droylsden N Littlemoss P Dukinfield R Hyde S Longdendale T Mossley V Micklehurst X Stalybridge Note: A-G are all wards of Ashton-under-Lyne; Littlemoss is a sub district of Droylsden; Longdendale consisted of the villages of Mottram, Broadbottom and Hollingworth; Micklehurst is a sub district of Mossley Names: If a name was printed in the book this will mean that the chargepayer is the same as the previous year. Obviously, occupiers stay at addresses for different lenghts of time. The names were amended manually and if an occupier left then that name was crossed out and the date te occupation ceased is in the column to the left. When a new occupier moved in the name was added and the date of the occupation was also shown on the left. This will also be indicated by a change in billing number and the leaver marker being amended. Notes: Council houses, flats and garages were not listed separately - they appear as a lump sum at the end of each rate book. CHS in this section means council house sale when the house would appear separately. The rateable value might appear in the Valuation Lists if they have survived. 1974-1988