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

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

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

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.

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

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

It opened in February 1887 at a cost of £43,067. The Town Hall, which incorporates the magistrates' court and the council offices, is built of Scottish granite and Storeton stone.

It was replaced with an ornamental garden at a cost of £200.

A unit of the Majestic class of nine battleships completed between 1895 and 1898 at a cost of approximately £1 million each.

In Great Oaks, a new fire station was officially opened in 1962 by Alderman G F Chaplin, CBE, JP, Chairman of Essex County Council; it took two years to build and cost about £62,000.

The cost of the land was £251,177 for 375 acres, but some of that was set aside for housing.

HMS 'Gleaner' cost £63,798, and was completed at Sheerness in 1890. Displacing 735 tons, she was armed with 1 x 4.7-inch QF and 4 x 3-pdr QFs.

The 60 foot by 200 foot plot would originally have cost around £50. Basildon Council fears that the building may be demolished, as there is no preservation order on the site.

If it was a National Trust property, and the cost was £5 to go in, there would be only a quarter of the visitors.

The total cost of the building was £7,465.

The conversion of the 18th-century house into a Gothic mansion was costly, to say the least. No money was spared on the interior and fittings.