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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.

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.

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.