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It belongs to St Andrew's church, which dates from 1867 and cost £5,000. St Andrews School, opened in 1866, is directly behind the Duke of York.

When the subscription list opened for the cost of the building, it was referred to as the City Hall.

Designed in 1865 and built at Chatham, she was completed in 1868 at a cost of £361,134 including machinery.

The low brick building, with Ketton stone facings, cost £8,000.

The function of a chantry priest was to say a mass every day for the soul of some departed citizen, the costs having been provided for in the dead person's estate, often in the form of rents from property

Plans were requested for a Town Hall costing about £20,000, but by its opening on 27 September 1871 the bill was £160,000. W H Crossland designed the 88ft-long building.

Its bell tower housed a carillon of 35 bells, cast at Louvain, and installed at a cost of more than £2,000. People would gather on the surrounding hills to listen to its peal.

In 1960 a new church, designed by Felix Velerde, was built at a cost of £40,000 and dedicated to St Vincent de Paul and St Louis de Marillac.

Clothes were still made at home, and Thoday sold patterns, often by Vogue, which could cost as much as 7s 6d, and also the more humble and easier designs selling for 1s 9d.

Blair was the postmaster-general, and in the letter he details the establishment of a postal service in the city.

The station was built at a cost of £20,000, and its classic grandeur still dominates St George Square. The foundation stone, laid in 1845, weighed an incredible six tons.

The corporation thought that this area was so important that they paid towards the cost of the Storeton stone from the Wirral for this French Renaissance-style building.

The neat and commodious building was erected in 10 acres of land at a cost of £1,000, and received several endowments.

The vicar of St Mary's, F Leith Lloyd, wanted a larger church for his congregation, and engaged William Niven to design this enormous church at a cost of £30,000.

The MSC, some 36 miles in length, was one of the great civil engineering projects of the late 19th century; it was completed in 1894 at a cost of £14.3 million. Construction began in 1887.

A poster in the shop window is for the re-opening of the organ and choir gallery in St Andrew's Parish Church.

The Palace, designed by the illustrious London architects Ernest George & Peto and built in 1882 at the then enormous cost of £20,000, was funded by Viscountess Ossington, sister of the 5th Duke of

The Victoria Pier behind them cost £23,000 to build in 1867; in 1891 a grand pavilion was built at the entrance, capable of seating 2,500 people, and one of the largest organs in Britain was installed

demolition); Flint (extensive demolition); Harlech (demo- lition of outer curtain); Haverfordwest (some demolition); Monmouth (dismantle works); Montgomery (demolish, material to be sold for paying costs

The museum was erected in 1881 as a 21st birthday present for Walter Rothschild by his mother at a cost of £3300.

Manufactured by Walter Mcfarlane & Company of Possil Park, Glasgow, it cost the princely sum of £1,000.

It apparently cost Styles £130,000, several millions in modern money. It is now a golf clubhouse.

A further block was built in 1934 (at a cost of £130,000) on Pitt Street and Marchand Street.

Trading from its port ended in 1922, and this heralded the start of Blakeney as a tourist centre, specialising in boating, fishing, walking, painting, bird-watching and nature study.