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It cost £5,000 and would win recognition from the Board of Education. Colonel Colfox gave more land for playing fields, in 1918, and it would then be re-designated as a Grammar School.

A new Ford Cortina saloon cost £669, and a Zephyr £933.

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.

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.

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.

A poster advertises the Victoria Pierrots.

Costing £30,000, this was the very first purpose built hydro in this country.

More costly granite, however, was used for pinnacles, windows and the arcades of the interior. The church is best known for its carved bench ends. Nearby is the small St Swithin's holy well.

It has a squat tower, about 40ft high, which was rebuilt at a cost of about £7,000. The ceiling of the nave was painted with a thousand stars.

The cost of the church was met by Miss Pilling-Taylor and her sister Mrs Edwards-Taylor of Moreton Hall.

Swanage has an advantage as a resort in that there is little difference between high and low tides, allowing good bathing at most times of the day.

This ornate fountain was erected in 1912 and cost £180; it was the subject of much public debate.

This high class variety proved expensive, so new leasees introduced less costly entertainment such as beauty contests and film shows.

Dedicated to Wisbech's most famous son, Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846): one of the key figures in the movement for the abolition of the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.

The construction of the Esplanade c1883-84, costing in the region of £10,000, would provide a stable and stylish platform along which the town's chic new visitors could indulge in the fashion for promenading

At the time this photograph was taken it cost 2d to go up the tower. The Beauchamp Chapel was built as directed in the will of Richard Beauchamp, fourteenth Earl of Warwick.

The Market Hall, (centre), opened on 23 April 1964; it cost £289,000 and holds 87 stalls, and replaced the old one which was in use from 29 August 1851.

Ashworth`s statue was unveiled on 1 June 1878 - it cost 800 guineas. The inscription states that he was `a devoted friend of the public`.

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

The Town Hall is the tall building with the clock tower in the centre of the photograph; it was built in 1864 by E W Godwin at a cost of £8,000.

Prices by the mid fifties had doubled on what they had been around 1946: a pound of sirloin cost 4s 2d, 3lb of flour 1s 3d, a dozen eggs would set you back 3s 10d and a pound of butter 2s 6d.

Haigh Hall was designed by the twenty-fourth Earl of Crawford for himself and built at a cost of £100,000 between c1832 and 1840.

Netley Hospital, which opened in 1868, was a quarter of a mile long and cost more than £300,000 to construct.