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Modernisation took place in 1980-81, costing a reported £250,000. The shoreward end was widened, making the pier's neck all the same width and new buildings were added.

The old bandstand, known locally as the 'bird cage', cost the large sum of £3,000 when it was built in the early 1890s.

The number 19 Dreadnought tram approaching (left) bears a poster advertising the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, where 'Whirled into Happiness' was being staged.

The ride cost 6d and lasted for one complete revolution of the wheel. However, every time one of the cars reached the bottom the wheel was stopped while it was unloaded and reloaded.

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

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 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.

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

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

On the left outside Hodley's is a poster announcing the postponement of the Ruabon date for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Demolition of houses along the route of the approach roads began in 1956 so that although the bridge itself cost £3 million, the approach roads added a further £1.5 million to the bill.

This view shows (to the left) a poster advertising Bailey's Central Pharmacy.

Its first theatre seated 400, and cost a mere £250 - it eventually became a cattle-shed at Lewes!

It cost £500 alone to obtain the preliminary designs from Italy.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.