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The span of the bridge is 645 feet, and the total cost was £98,000. Designed by the engineering firm of R H Haynes of Newport and the Frenchman F Arnodin, the bridge was opened in 1906.

His bricks were his reply to Government proposals to tax bricks after the costly War of American Independence in 1782.

In the 1970s a 5-bedroom property near Hamble River cost £40,000.

There has been a church on this site since the 7th century; the first church was dedicated to St Wilfrid.

There has been a church on this site since the 7th century; the first church was dedicated to St Wilfrid.

The government intended to use the provisions of the Act to make the American colonies pay for their own defence and to contribute towards the costs of the Seven Years War.

It dates from the 13th century and contains the Salisbury Chapel, built in 1618 to hold the tomb of Robert Cecil, first earl of Salisbury, at a cost of £460.

If the date of the picture is correct, 1908 is quite late for a paddle-tug to be serving at other than a major coal port such as Cardiff, Sunderland or Seaham.

When the Spencer Davies Group performed here, tickets cost 7s 6d. Other performers were the Troggs from Andover and David Bowie. The Town Hall is now the Willis Museum.

Broth with dumplings cost one penny a bowl. We are looking across Cook Lane towards Townfield Gate. All of this was cleared for the new shopping centre and bus station.

In 1933 nine Hayling coastguard cottages plus a building plot were sold for £3,280, and in 1965 a 4-bedroom house with garden and garage in Hayling cost £10,500.

Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading.

By 19 June 1848 they had built a Market House (which cost £1400) and by 1850 a gasworks. By 1880 water was being piped from Grizedale reservoir, and a new railway station was ready in the same year.

Despite the scale of the engineering, the cost of building the line, including land acquisition, was a reasonable £67,000.

He finally bought a three-acre plot from the Sergison family just north of Muster Green; one of the many restrictive clauses was that any future house built on any part of the site must cost in excess

The stand we see here was built in 1884 of red brick at a cost of £9,033 (£2,000 more than the estimate).

The large squat tower of St Mary's was built between 1638-40 at a cost of £750.

Fundraising started in earnest, and by 7 August 1850 the Church of St Anne was completed at a cost of £4,000.

A Town Hall with a clock was built at a cost of £1,215 8s 10d on land at the northern end of South Street and opened without ceremony in 1835.

It has a Norman south doorway and a celebrated panelled font of 1468 which cost £12 13s 9d.

It took 23 years to build, using mainly convict labour from the Verne Prison on the island, cost £1m, and was formally opened in 1872. It remains one of the largest naval harbours in the world.

Designed by Capt John Kitson, Royal Engineers, Fort Perch Rock was built between 1826 and 1829 at a cost of £27,000 to defend the seaward approach to Liverpool and the Mersey.

Its foundation stone was laid on 11th June 1845 and the cost of the building was £1,300. Little here has changed today, except that the Town Hall chimneys have been shortened.

the product had dropped and parts of the farm had fallen into disrepair; in 1975, the 185ft Ovaltine chimney, which had been built using a quarter of million bricks for £7000, was demolished at a cost