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Burtons and Woolworths altered the streetscape with their respective Art-Deco and stuccoed cost-cutting neo-Georgian designs.

Not only did the coming of the canal vastly lower distribution costs for the industrial towns of Yorkshire, it also provided a localised transport service for the towns and cities through which it passed

Not only did the coming of the canal vastly lower distribution costs for the industrial towns of Yorkshire, it also provided a localised transport service for the towns and cities through which it passed

The will of Henry Forster dated 26 August 1692 directed that a school master at £10 per year be appointed at five Rutland villages, including Langham, to educate poor children free of cost

Opened on Monday 6 August 1850, the 40 semi-circular arches are built from sixteen million locally made bricks capped with Hexham stone blocks; the cost was £80,000.

Cheese, which had cost 8d a pound in 1914, had risen to 1s 2d by 1920.

It closed in 1984, costing Basildon 1,500 jobs. Fifteen years earlier, it had been producing 65% of all the cigarettes exported from Britain.

Cheese, which had cost 8d a pound in 1914, had risen to 1s 2d by 1920.

Cheese, which had cost 8d a pound in 1914, had risen to 1s 2d by 1920.

An early experiment using water-carts to damp down the streets found that it took 7,000 gallons to water one mile of street, 18 feet in width, at a cost of 8s 4d per mile.

Built between 1796 and 1801 at a cost of £20,898, the aqueduct carries the canal 70 feet above the River Ceiriog for a distance of 710 feet.

It belongs to St Andrew's church, which dates from 1867 and cost £5,000. St Andrews School, opened in 1866, is directly behind the Duke of York.

When the subscription list opened for the cost of the building, it was referred to as the City Hall.

Designed in 1865 and built at Chatham, she was completed in 1868 at a cost of £361,134 including machinery.

The low brick building, with Ketton stone facings, cost £8,000.

The function of a chantry priest was to say a mass every day for the soul of some departed citizen, the costs having been provided for in the dead person's estate, often in the form of rents from property

Plans were requested for a Town Hall costing about £20,000, but by its opening on 27 September 1871 the bill was £160,000. W H Crossland designed the 88ft-long building.

Its bell tower housed a carillon of 35 bells, cast at Louvain, and installed at a cost of more than £2,000. People would gather on the surrounding hills to listen to its peal.

In 1960 a new church, designed by Felix Velerde, was built at a cost of £40,000 and dedicated to St Vincent de Paul and St Louis de Marillac.

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.

Blair was the postmaster-general, and in the letter he details the establishment of a postal service in the city.

The station was built at a cost of £20,000, and its classic grandeur still dominates St George Square. The foundation stone, laid in 1845, weighed an incredible six tons.

The corporation thought that this area was so important that they paid towards the cost of the Storeton stone from the Wirral for this French Renaissance-style building.

The neat and commodious building was erected in 10 acres of land at a cost of £1,000, and received several endowments.