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A similar trend is reflected in the pictures of villages, taken because there were once village shops and post offices which were points of sale.

A similar trend is reflected in the pictures of villages, taken because there were once village shops and post offices which were points of sale.

This was the first street in the town to be built, but it had long lost its residents when this view was taken.

Fortunately these plans came to nothing and the gallery began to be used as a hostel where off-duty service women, posted to this area, could spend their leisure time.

She trained her daughters, Mary and Lucy, in new skills as telegraphists, and when Mary took over in 1891 she lobbied for a custom- built post office in the town.

However, by 1847 James Thorn could write in 'Rambles by Rivers' that 'there are several large inns, to which was formerly a considerable posting trade attached, but it was almost destroyed by the

The Romans found it, and used it for a signal post; the remains of this are still visible within the walls of the Castle. Later, the Norsemen came calling (and pil- laging).

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

It cost one penny to travel the length of New Street by horse-drawn omnibus, while a Hansom cab cost somewhat more.

It was opened in 1892, when a ticket up or down cost 1d (one old penny). Today only return tickets are available, and these now cost 70 pence.

It cost 4s 6d a night to stay here, with dinner costing between 4-5s. The Red Horse and the Golden Lion were slightly cheaper.

In 1967, 'Trencherman', writing for 'Hertfordshire 'Countryside magazine, reported that the bill for a three-course meal for two cost £3 2s 8d (£3.18), and that the main course of two(!)

In 1914 a pound of butter at the Meadow Dairy Co would have cost 1s 3d; by 1920 the war had pushed the price up to 2s 11d.

On the right are the Royal Baths, which cost nearly £100,000 to build; even the Kursaal, which opened in 1903, cost over £70,000.

On the right are the Royal Baths, which cost nearly £100,000 to build; Harrogate was never parsimonious in its development plans - the Kursaal, which opened in 1903, cost over £70,000.

The City Hall is being re-furbished at a cost of over £12-million, the money coming mainly from the European Union and central government; Weston Park Museum and the Mappin Art Gallery are undergoing

Between 1914 and 1920 there had been huge increases in the prices of even the most basic of foodstuffs.

In the 1770s the cost of bringing even a small vessel up the river from Pill could cost in the region of £10.

Brunel estimated that the bridge would cost £52,966 to construct.

Completed in 1753 at a cost of £12, the Market Hall, Butter Cross and the stocks were removed at a cost of £16 6s from Main Street to the Prince of Wales park in 1888, which is where we see them in this

Madeira Walk cost nearly £60,000 to build, and because of the cost, the waterfall was dubbed 'the rate-payers' tears'.

The whole castle cost £85,923 13s 11d, or nearly £9 million in today's money.

The whole castle cost £85,923 13s 11d, or nearly £9 million in today's money.

On the right is the Town Hall in all its Gothic splendour, which was completed in 1873 at a cost of £100,000.