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Apparently it cost £2,000 more to demolish the bridge in 1961 than it had to build it in 1905.

To the right of this photograph is a poster advertising the film You Were Meant for Me, starring Jeanne Crain and Dan Dailey, and showing at the Embassy cinema.

The Queen's Hotel was built in 1837 at a cost of £47,000.

He commissioned Slater and Carpenter of London to design St Peter's in the fashionable Gothic style at a cost of £10,000.

The church of St Mary has some parts that are medieval, but most of what can be seen today dates from its rebuilding between 1859 and 1860 under the supervision of Henry Woodyer.

At the beginning of the 20th century a room at the Queen's Hotel cost 4s a night, breakfast 3s and dinner 5s.

to the late-Victorian development on this part of the seafront, it would have been possible to see Castle Mona, the residence built in 1804 for Governor James Murray (later Fourth Duke of Atholl) at a cost

Theatregoers used to be able to hire a boy from the Barbican to queue for them, a service which cost the princely sum of 6d in the 1930s.

We travel back to the London Road, and at the entrance to the Staff College, we find the War Memorial, erected in 1922 at a cost of £433.

Limited capacity, high operating costs, and people lacking the patience to wait for a ferry, combined to put an end to what would have been a pleasant alternative to driving on a motorway.

The rain appears to have just stopped, which may be good news, as a poster on the right indicates that a bank holiday is pending.

East Howe Congregational Hall on the corner displays a poster for YMCA Club events. The oak trees are an indication that there were just hedges and fields here until the 1920s.

It cost £3,351 to build, over a quarter of which was raised by local people, the remainder being supplied by the local gentry.

The high altar was designed by Pugin and manufactured in Dublin at a cost of £700; it was of Gothic design and made of Caen stone, richly carved. It was given by James Lomax of Clayton Hall.

This late 19th-century mock castle was built 'at great cost and with the best materials and workmanship' by John Turner Turner, a renowned sportsman and big game hunter.

Built at a cost of £2,000 on the junction of Basset Street (left) with Trevenson Street, the Passmore Edwards Free Library was opened on 23 May 1895 and boasted 5,400 volumes.

A new Ford Cortina saloon cost £669, and a Zephyr £933.

It cost £5,000 and would win recognition from the Board of Education. Colonel Colfox gave more land for playing fields, in 1918, and it would then be re-designated as a Grammar School.

Dating from the mid 15th century it was extensively restored in 1866 at a cost of £1,200, mostly paid thanks to the benefaction of Mr Robert Copeman, many of whose ancestors are buried within

Dyserth is most famous for its waterfall, attracting visitors in their hundreds.

The land was acquired by the City Corporation in 1934 at a cost of £8,000. The Debtors' Prison was opened as a museum, which was then extended to the Women's Prison building.

This high class variety proved expensive, so new leasees introduced less costly entertainment such as beauty contests and film shows.

The cost of the church was met by Miss Pilling-Taylor and her sister Mrs Edwards-Taylor of Moreton Hall.

Swanage has an advantage as a resort in that there is little difference between high and low tides, allowing good bathing at most times of the day.