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During the early decades of the 19th century, Bristol was losing trade to Hull, Liverpool, London and the South Wales ports owing to its high dock charges.

The market re-opened in April 1868; the alterations cost about £5000.

On average, a 14oz loaf cost 1s, a pound of streaky bacon 3s 6d, a pound of cheese 3s 5d, and 2lb sugar 1s 5d.

It took 7,000 gallons of water to cleanse one mile of roadway, 18 feet in width, at a cost of 8s 4d a mile.

The building was an incredible quarter of a mile long and cost more than £300,000 to construct.

was given to the village by the late Viscount Pirrie in the year this photograph was taken, and the village hall bearing his name, and which also serves as the pavilion, was built at the same time at a cost

Roath Park was laid out in 1894 at a cost of £62,000 - a considerable sum in those days. The land, 132 acres, was presented to the city by Lord Bute.

But the great keep, the inner bailey and much of the curtain walling were built by Henry II between 1168-86, at the then colossal cost of £3,000.

The foundation stone for the Towen Hall was laid on 29 October 1852 by Joseph Fielden, and it was opened on 30 October 1856.The total cost was £29,428 16s 3d.The clock tower and the Market Hall are

The building was expensive, and the final cost of the church was thought to be nearly £60,000.

Beneath it is a sign that reads 'Black Beauty Shag, excellent for making your own cigarettes, costing 8d and 4d'. The shop has gone and is now a private house.

Clothes were still made at home, and Thoday sold patterns, often by Vogue, which could cost as much as 7s 6d, and also the more humble and easier designs selling for 1s 9d.

The costs proved high.

Here, rooms cost 4s a night and dinner 3s 6d; the County Hotel across the street had a similar tariff, as did the nearby Metropole.

The vehicle cost about £140, and had a top speed of 56 miles per hour. It has an AA badge on the grille, and the starting handle hangs over the number plate.

The complex was built on a site previously occupied by a row of cottages adjacent to Cambridge Hall, and opened in 1878 having cost around £14,000.

It cost £9,000 to build, paid for by Mr John Walter II, proprietor of The Times newspaper, whose daughter Catherine died at the age of 23 in 1844.

In 1967 a dozen eggs cost 4s 1d; 2lb of sugar 1s 9d; potatoes were 5d a pound; a pint of milk 10d; streaky bacon 3s 6d a pound; and for the well off, sirloin was 6s 10d a pound.

The project cost about £600,000, and involved diverting the Avon to the south from Totterdown and round the city to link up with its old course.

A new church was built in the centre of Upton village at a cost of £728, which in turn was replaced by the present St Mary's in 1868.

The span of the bridge is 645 feet, and the total cost was £98,000.

This new road was constructed in 1868 off The Borough at a cost of £2312 10s.

Designed by J Wallis Chapman, of London, it was inaugurated on 31 October 1872, and cost around £300.On 11 December 1883, the memorial column was blown over during a gale but was quickly rebuilt, with

Tolls had been collected since the Middle Ages on its predecessor, and the practice continued on the 1770s replacement, partly to recoup the £19,000 cost of the five-year rebuilding.