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

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.

Costing over £130,000 to build and opened in July 1864, the Assize Court was a blend of Early English and Victorian Gothic.

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.

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

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.

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

A poster (right) advertises a farm auction sale.

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 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.

The church was rebuilt in 1861 and the tower went up in 1873 at a cost of £3,500 in memory of Bishop Philpott, who is buried in the churchyard.

Repair costs were felt to be unjustifiable, and demolition followed in 1927.

Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.

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.

Avon Castle 1891 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 Yeatman Hospital in Hospital Lane was completed in 1864 at a total cost of £2000; the foundation stone was laid by Mrs Wingfield Digby.

The verandahed building is the pavilion, which opened in 1909 and cost £300 to build. It has since been refurbished with a coated metal roof resembling pantiles.

It cost £8,000 and all of this money was paid by one benefactor, Thomas Hazelhurst.

Holiday camps like Caister's offered inexpensive breaks for the whole family - with all costs included.

In 1965 one of the two-bedroom cottages beside the river sold for £2,350; it would now cost £235,000.

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.

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.