I have my grandfather's tax assessment from the 1940s. He won the pools - about £2,000 - in that period. He seems only to have been taxed on some interest, and I imagine that neither before nor since did he ever have enough to pay tax.
Some of his ancestors worked in the dockyards, and their pension records show how much pension they got, when they first got it and when they died, but not personal details like addresses: I suppose they hobbled down the road to collect it each week.
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