Editing HM Customs and Excise (section)

===Headquarters===
[[File:Custom House City of London.jpg|thumb|Custom House, Lower Thames Street, London: long-time home of HM Customs.]]
The historic headquarters of HM Customs was the [[Custom House, City of London|Custom House on Lower Thames Street]] in the [[City of London]]. This went on to become the headquarters of HMCE when the Excise head office moved there from [[Somerset House]] in 1909. Later, however, the Commissioners along with most of the headquarters staff were forced to move out after the building was damaged in a [[London Blitz|bombing raid]] in December 1940. They moved initially to [[Finsbury Square]], then in 1952 to the newly built ''King's Beam House'' in [[Mark Lane, London|Mark Lane]].<ref name="Smith1980" /> (The damaged section of London's Custom House was later rebuilt and the building remained in use by HM Revenue and Customs until 2021.)<ref>{{cite web |title=PRESS RELEASE: Palatial historic home of HM Customs & Excise urgently needs a future |url=https://www.savebritainsheritage.org/campaigns/recent/633/PRESS-RELEASE-Palatial-historic-home-of-HM-Customs-Excise-urgently-needs-a-future |website=SAVE Britain's Heritage |access-date=11 March 2023}}</ref> In 1987 the headquarters staff moved again to ''New King's Beam House'' 22 Upper Ground London SE1 in the area of [[Southwark]].