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Construction cost £3,000 of which £1,500 was given by Rev Joseph Bradney.

In the foreground is a poster advertising the Royal Jubilee Exhibition, which was opened by the Prince of Wales and ran from May to October 1887.

It cost £500 alone to obtain the preliminary designs from Italy.

Its first theatre seated 400, and cost a mere £250 - it eventually became a cattle-shed at Lewes!

This view shows (to the left) a poster advertising Bailey's Central Pharmacy.

Demolition of houses along the route of the approach roads began in 1956 so that although the bridge itself cost £3 million, the approach roads added a further £1.5 million to the bill.

The number 19 Dreadnought tram approaching (left) bears a poster advertising the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, where 'Whirled into Happiness' was being staged.

The ride cost 6d and lasted for one complete revolution of the wheel. However, every time one of the cars reached the bottom the wheel was stopped while it was unloaded and reloaded.

Apparently it cost £2,000 more to demolish the bridge in 1961 than it had to build it in 1905.

To the right of this photograph is a poster advertising the film You Were Meant for Me, starring Jeanne Crain and Dan Dailey, and showing at the Embassy cinema.

The Queen's Hotel was built in 1837 at a cost of £47,000.

He commissioned Slater and Carpenter of London to design St Peter's in the fashionable Gothic style at a cost of £10,000.

The church of St Mary has some parts that are medieval, but most of what can be seen today dates from its rebuilding between 1859 and 1860 under the supervision of Henry Woodyer.

On the left outside Hodley's is a poster announcing the postponement of the Ruabon date for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

At the beginning of the 20th century a room at the Queen's Hotel cost 4s a night, breakfast 3s and dinner 5s.

to the late-Victorian development on this part of the seafront, it would have been possible to see Castle Mona, the residence built in 1804 for Governor James Murray (later Fourth Duke of Atholl) at a cost

Theatregoers used to be able to hire a boy from the Barbican to queue for them, a service which cost the princely sum of 6d in the 1930s.

We travel back to the London Road, and at the entrance to the Staff College, we find the War Memorial, erected in 1922 at a cost of £433.

Limited capacity, high operating costs, and people lacking the patience to wait for a ferry, combined to put an end to what would have been a pleasant alternative to driving on a motorway.

The rain appears to have just stopped, which may be good news, as a poster on the right indicates that a bank holiday is pending.

East Howe Congregational Hall on the corner displays a poster for YMCA Club events. The oak trees are an indication that there were just hedges and fields here until the 1920s.

It cost £3,351 to build, over a quarter of which was raised by local people, the remainder being supplied by the local gentry.

The high altar was designed by Pugin and manufactured in Dublin at a cost of £700; it was of Gothic design and made of Caen stone, richly carved. It was given by James Lomax of Clayton Hall.

This late 19th-century mock castle was built 'at great cost and with the best materials and workmanship' by John Turner Turner, a renowned sportsman and big game hunter.