Above the ground floor there are actually 7 floors. The sixth floor is windowless from the facade but was lit from a partial glass roof, seemingly now covered over and contained, in the 1960s, the comptometer room with dozens of young ladies beavering away on the company accounts, plus a trading floor. This was fully accessible by stairs and goods lifts in the centre of the building as well as the directors'/customers' lift which rose from the entrance in Tib St.
The seventh floor is a partial floor built above the roof level. This was only accessible by stairs and contained the staff canteen (with an excellent and cheap menu) and toilets. This can be seen if you stand in Piccadilly Gardens and look towards the Market St facade, where it rises above the parapet of the windowless sixth floor.
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