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The construction of the Esplanade c1883-84, costing in the region of £10,000, would provide a stable and stylish platform along which the town's chic new visitors could indulge in the fashion for promenading

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

The Market Hall, (centre), opened on 23 April 1964; it cost £289,000 and holds 87 stalls, and replaced the old one which was in use from 29 August 1851.

Ashworth`s statue was unveiled on 1 June 1878 - it cost 800 guineas. The inscription states that he was `a devoted friend of the public`.

The Town Hall is the tall building with the clock tower in the centre of the photograph; it was built in 1864 by E W Godwin at a cost of £8,000.

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower. The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

Its excessive cost was once the talk of the city. Estimates ran as high as two and a half million pounds. In 1869 it was faced with cubes of Aberdeen granite.

The parish church of St Margaret was rebuilt in the mid 19th century at a cost of around £3,000, having originally been erected in the late 15th century.

The Grand Hotel at the west end of Charing Cross had rooms from 3s 6d a night, with dinner costing 5s.

The cost was defrayed by Lady Ann Warwick, the wife of Richard, Earl of Gloucester, later to be King Richard III.

Losses were so great that as early as 1901 the Gardens seriously considered dismantling the brute, and were only stopped from doing so because the costs would prove prohibitive.

Costing over £130,000 to build and opened in July 1864, the Assize Court was a blend of Early English and Victorian Gothic.

The Town Hall covered a site of nearly two acres; building began in 1868 and was completed in 1877 at a cost of about £1million.

This village must qualify for having had one of the most short-lived halts in railway history.

The hotel was built in 1816 at a cost of £677 5s. by William Belsher Parfett, from Eversley.

In fact there was a public outcry in the town at the time at the expense of the purchase - it cost £2,250.

Opened in 1883 the Edward Seward-designed South Wales and Monmouthshire Infirmary was built at a cost of £23,000.

A poster (right) advertises a farm auction sale.

However, after being blown down in a storm, the cost of its rebuilding in 1991 was over £17,000.

The annual running costs of a great house like Chatsworth are over £1 million a year, and apart from selling off the odd painting or other treasure such places have no alternative but to charge visitors

The school was founded in 1632; its original buildings were supplemented in 1899 by those on the left, at a cost of more than three thousand pounds.

The church was rebuilt in 1861 and the tower went up in 1873 at a cost of £3,500 in memory of Bishop Philpott, who is buried in the churchyard.

Repair costs were felt to be unjustifiable, and demolition followed in 1927.