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Built in the Scottish Baronial style, at a cost of £400,000, the infirmary was dealing with 8,000 patients a year by 1900.

A poster on the left advertises a Thanksgiving service.

It cost the parishioners of Warboys £200.

It was built at a cost of £27,000.

The sign on the door announces that admission will cost 6d (or 2½ new pence!).

Miniature golf was another attraction, with a round of eighteen holes costing the princely sum of 9d.

Each article of luggage carried on the outside cost 2d.

The journey from the capital to the naval port by coach took eight hours; the six hours to Liphook cost 13s 6d.

These worked on the ', she cost £2,919, and served Wells between 1936 and 1945.

The Gorleston Pavilion (left), always a popular venue with its dance hall and theatre, is hosting the summer show— The Revumorists.

Consecrated in 1868, the parish church was funded entirely by William, the 8th Duke of Bedford, at a cost of £35,000.

The lace for Queen Victoria's wedding dress was made in Beer at a cost of £1000.

The remainder dates from 1867 when the church was rebuilt at a cost of £3,500.

Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the 14th-century parish church was rebuilt between 1858 and 1860 at a cost of £15,000; some 14th-century roof timbers were salvaged and reused.

The final cost of the Academy was £350,000, which was nearly double the estimate.

To take a cab from here to St Anne's Square in Manchester cost 9d per mile for one or two people, and a 1s a mile for three or four people.

Six years later, this church, which has seating for 350 people, was opened; the buildings had cost £2400, of which half was raised by subscription.

The huge oil refinery at Fawley cost £120 million when it was built; it occupied the site of Cadland Park, the former home of the Drummond family. This refinery was the largest in the United Kingdom.

Each article of luggage carried on the outside cost 2d.

Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.

It was the toll house, and until 1914 it cost a halfpenny to cross. Opposite, in St George's Field, was the ducking stool used for scoundrels and females who served false measures or brewed bad beer.

Today it costs 60p to cross.

Inside the main window a displayed poster warns 'Don't Help the Enemy, Careless Talk Costs Lives' - no doubt a relic from the Second World War.

Such lamps were often removed during the summer months and were often left unlit on moonlit nights in winter, an impressive example of early civic cost-cutting.