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Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.

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.

Avon Castle 1891 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.

The Yeatman Hospital in Hospital Lane was completed in 1864 at a total cost of £2000; the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Wingfield Digby.

The verandahed building is the pavilion, which opened in 1909 and cost £300 to build. It has since been refurbished with a coated metal roof resembling pantiles.

It cost £8,000 and all of this money was paid by one benefactor, Thomas Hazelhurst.

Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.

In 1965 one of the two-bedroom cottages beside the river sold for £2,350; it would now cost £235,000.

Mr Barton gave the land and £1,000 towards the cost on condition that there should be no pew rents as there had been in the older church.

This time, a poster advertises a concert party given by the Mahatmas. This scene has changed a great deal over the past few years with the new Exmouth dockland development.

The latter, with its unusual cover, cost £3. 10s.

The final cost to him was £14,000. Mount Falinge was damaged by fire in 1975 and only the facade and terrace remain.

Costing £7,500, it was built in 1857 as a workhouse for over 200 'destitute and aged folk' with a master and matron who had to be man and wife and whose salary was £80 per annum 'with rations

The bus shelter was built in 1964 and cost £350. The lane leads to Little London.

Situated in the Aldershot Park estate (bought by the council in 1920 for £21,000), it was originally a lake; it was drained, and dressing rooms and lawns were added, costing £20,000.

In 1961, a box of three Irish linen hand-rolled handkerchiefs cost 8s 11d from Bourne & Hollingsworth in the Bargate.

The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.

St Illtyd's is built in the Decorated style and dates from the early 14th century; the nave was rebuilt and a north aisle added in 1849 at a cost of £1,200.

When the school moved to Berkshire in 1934, the owners considered the idea of taking it with them, but the costs and problems of dismantling, transporting and re-erecting the building were eventually recognised

A poster advertising the Bric a Bracs, an entertainment troupe, adorns the building at the landward end of the pier.

The project was plagued with a lack of money from the start, and Street had to redraw the plans and cut costs. The lack of a clerestory makes the nave very dark.

The busy Dover promenade was very popular with visitors; a pier was added to it in 1893 at a cost of £28,000.

The school was built on the Green in 1872 at a cost of £700, with accommodation for 70 children. The side windows have gone and have been replaced by six sky-lights in the roof.

In 1967, one of the Georgian residences with seven bedrooms, two acres and a heated-swimming pool cost £20,000.