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The MSC, some 36 miles in length, was one of the great civil engineering projects of the late 19th century; it was completed in 1894 at a cost of £14.3 million. Construction began in 1887.

The neat and commodious building was erected in 10 acres of land at a cost of £1,000, and received several endowments.

demolition); Flint (extensive demolition); Harlech (demo- lition of outer curtain); Haverfordwest (some demolition); Monmouth (dismantle works); Montgomery (demolish, material to be sold for paying costs

The function of a chantry priest was to say a mass every day for the soul of some departed citizen, the costs having been provided for in the dead person's estate, often in the form of rents from property

The low brick building, with Ketton stone facings, cost £8,000.

Plans were requested for a Town Hall costing about £20,000, but by its opening on 27 September 1871 the bill was £160,000. W H Crossland designed the 88ft-long building.

It apparently cost Styles £130,000, several millions in modern money. It is now a golf clubhouse.

Manufactured by Walter Mcfarlane & Company of Possil Park, Glasgow, it cost the princely sum of £1,000.

The museum was erected in 1881 as a 21st birthday present for Walter Rothschild by his mother at a cost of £3300.

A further block was built in 1934 (at a cost of £130,000) on Pitt Street and Marchand Street.

This church cost £10,000; it used much stone from the previous church (1509) on the site, which was demolished on 28 April 1834.

This structure, and the surrounding curtain wall, was built by Henry II in the 12th century at a cost of £7000, but the first fortifications were constructed by King Harold in 1064.

The first bridge here dated from 1855, when local worthy Mrs Cornish allowed its construction at a cost of £26 10s using timbers taken from the sailing vessel Laurel, which had been wrecked on Sidmouth

This structure, and the surrounding curtain wall, was built by Henry II in the 12th century at a cost of £7000, but the first fortifications were constructed by King Harold in 1064.

Trading from its port ended in 1922, and this heralded the start of Blakeney as a tourist centre, specialising in boating, fishing, walking, painting, bird-watching and nature study.

Probably its most attractive artefact is the building itself, which was constructed in the early 16th century: the Town House was owned by Westminster Abbey and later by St John's College, Cambridge, and

The low brick building, with Ketton stone facings, cost £8,000.

This chapel was opened in April 1890 at the cost of £2,000 with seating for 600 people.

While not obvious from this photograph, Gresford is most famous for the tragic mining disaster of 1934 when 266 lives were lost following an explosion and fire at the Gresford Colliery.

By its completion in December 1893, 17,000 'navvies' had shifted 54 million cubic yards of soil and rocks to create the 35.5-mile-long canal at the then staggering cost of £15 million.

A poster beside the door carries the crown and 'E R' initials for the new king, Edward Rex, proclaiming 'Recruits Wanted' for the armed forces. Retired fishermen stand in the road.

The Victoria Pier behind them cost £23,000 to build in 1867; in 1891 a grand pavilion was built at the entrance, capable of seating 2,500 people, and one of the largest organs in Britain was installed

This new three-arch bridge was completed in 1804 at a cost of £24,864; on the central parapet are the names of the then 74-year-old architect John Carr and the builder, Bernard Hartley of Pontefract

In 1960 a single room with breakfast cost £1 7s 6d per night in the high season, with 3-course luncheon at 8s 0d, afternoon tea 3s 0d and 3-course dinner 9s 0d.