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The Town Hall covered a site of nearly two acres; building began in 1868 and was completed in 1877 at a cost of about £1million.

The school was founded in 1632; its original buildings were supplemented in 1899 by those on the left, at a cost of more than three thousand pounds.

A poster (right) advertises a farm auction sale.

This village must qualify for having had one of the most short-lived halts in railway history.

Opened in 1883 the Edward Seward-designed South Wales and Monmouthshire Infirmary was built at a cost of £23,000.

Losses were so great that as early as 1901 the Gardens seriously considered dismantling the brute, and were only stopped from doing so because the costs would prove prohibitive.

The cost was defrayed by Lady Ann Warwick, the wife of Richard, Earl of Gloucester, later to be King Richard III.

The Grand Hotel at the west end of Charing Cross had rooms from 3s 6d a night, with dinner costing 5s.

However, after being blown down in a storm, the cost of its rebuilding in 1991 was over £17,000.

The annual running costs of a great house like Chatsworth are over £1 million a year, and apart from selling off the odd painting or other treasure such places have no alternative but to charge visitors

The hotel was built in 1816 at a cost of £677 5s. by William Belsher Parfett, from Eversley.

In fact there was a public outcry in the town at the time at the expense of the purchase - it cost £2,250.

This time, a poster advertises a concert party given by the Mahatmas. This scene has changed a great deal over the past few years with the new Exmouth dockland development.

Mr Barton gave the land and £1,000 towards the cost on condition that there should be no pew rents as there had been in the older church.

When the school moved to Berkshire in 1934, the owners considered the idea of taking it with them, but the costs and problems of dismantling, transporting and re-erecting the building were eventually recognised

The bus shelter was built in 1964 and cost £350. The lane leads to Little London.

The final cost to him was £14,000. Mount Falinge was damaged by fire in 1975 and only the facade and terrace remain.

Costing £7,500, it was built in 1857 as a workhouse for over 200 'destitute and aged folk' with a master and matron who had to be man and wife and whose salary was £80 per annum 'with rations

St Illtyd's is built in the Decorated style and dates from the early 14th century; the nave was rebuilt and a north aisle added in 1849 at a cost of £1,200.

Situated in the Aldershot Park estate (bought by the council in 1920 for £21,000), it was originally a lake; it was drained, and dressing rooms and lawns were added, costing £20,000.

The latter, with its unusual cover, cost £3. 10s.

The Southport & Lytham Tramroad Co came up with a proposal to construct a transporter bridge due south of Hesketh Bank at a cost of £183,500.

In 1961, a box of three Irish linen hand-rolled handkerchiefs cost 8s 11d from Bourne & Hollingsworth in the Bargate.

The Yeatman Hospital in Hospital Lane was completed in 1864 at a total cost of £2000; the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Wingfield Digby.