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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Built at a cost of £2,000 on the junction of Basset Street (left) with Trevenson Street, the Passmore Edwards Free Library was opened on 23 May 1895 and boasted 5,400 volumes.

The land was acquired by the City Corporation in 1934 at a cost of £8,000. The Debtors' Prison was opened as a museum, which was then extended to the Women's Prison building.

Dating from the mid 15th century it was extensively restored in 1866 at a cost of £1,200, mostly paid thanks to the benefaction of Mr Robert Copeman, many of whose ancestors are buried within

Dyserth is most famous for its waterfall, attracting visitors in their hundreds.

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.

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.