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

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

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.

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

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

A week's stay here cost around 59s.

The Lower Promenade was built in 1934-35 at a cost of £15,000 and opened in June 1935. It is a lovely place to sit in the sun and look at the sea and chat to your friends.

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

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

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

In September 1909 the 7623yds long Rivelin Tunnel was completed at a cost of £150,000.

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

The church was designed by W Bassett Smith of London and built at a cost of £3,320; it was consecrated on 11 May 1869.

Built in Portland stone and costing £30,000, it was one of the most impressive memorials to be built by a provincial town.

Admittance through the tollgate cost a penny, but a bathchair and attendant was 6d and a perambulator and attendant 3d.

The roof of the Great Hall and several other rooms were restored at considerable cost after being seriously damaged by fire in 1871.

The roof of the Great Hall and several other rooms were restored at considerable cost after being seriously damaged by fire in 1871.

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.

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.

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.

Today it costs 60p to cross.