Cost Collection

Schneider Trophy Air Race
Souvenir programme cover design, Schneider Trophy Contest. Date: 12 September 1931

Mount Pleasant Hotel, Kings Cross, London
The Mount Pleasant Hotel at the corner of Kings Cross Road and Calthorpe Street, Central London. The building was originally erected in 1894 as one of Londons six Rowton Houses - large

Jersey Airways Poster
Jersey Airways Ltd poster, showing a passenger biplane flying from the south coast of Britain to Jersey. Listing duration and costs of flights from London and Portsmouth. 20th century

New York, New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street where coffee and soft drinks are sold. The coffee machine cost one thousand dollars. Date 1942 Aug.?

This cost a pretty figure by Merlin Enabnit
Pin up girl by Merlin Enabnit (1903-1979) posed provocatively in her underwear while examining a string of pearls. Enabnit was born in Des Moines, Iowa and was a successful commercial artist

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) French singer in her dressing room at Alexandra Palace before taking part in a BBC cabaret show called Cafe Continental

Battle of Salamanca
Wellington decisively defeats the French under Marmont at Salamanca, destroying the French army at relatively little cost

Soho, London - NCP car park, Brewer Street W1
Soho, London - NCP car park, list of charges, Brewer Street W1. 1973

Mormon Temple
The Mormon Temple, Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah built 1893 at a cost of nearly $4 million !!!

Map of London Underground railway, Hampstead Tube
Map of London Underground railway extension, highlighting the recently opened Hampstead Tube (Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway), branching out to Golders Green and Highgate. Date: 1907

Advert for the purhcase of a house in Golders Green (engraving)
609537 Advert for the purhcase of a house in Golders Green (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

The F. A. Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, 1923
Aerial photograph of Wembley Stadium before the start of the 1923 F.A. Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United

Copper Moulds
Copper jelly and cream moulds - the more elaborate cost as much as 18 shillings, a great deal of money in those days, 30 or more in year 2000 term"

Caricature of John Corlett of The Sporting Times
Caricature of John Corlett (1841-1915), founder, proprietor and editor of The Sporting Times. Real Jam! He is annoyed that the cabman charges eighteen pence to drive someone one mile and 1700 yards

A Fish Auction in Columbia Market
In 1869 Baroness Burdett-Coutts paid for the building of the great Columbia Market (for fish) between Hackney and Bethnal Green Roads on the site of Nova Scotia Gardens

Covent Garden Advert
A stall at Covent Garden would cost you a guinea in the 1880s, (say x 100 today) showing that opera-going has always been an expensive, elitist affair. Date: circa 1880

Demonstration against the toll on Chelsea Bridge, London
A demonstration against the charging of a toll on the new Chelsea Bridge, London

Oregano, Lecce, Lecce province, Puglia, Italy, Europe

Garlic for sale on the market in Cours Saleya, Nice, Alpes Maritimes, Cote d Azur, Provence, France, Europe

Tenerife, Canary Islands - Teresitas Beach and San Andres, Spain

Tenerife - panoramic view of Teresitas Beach and San Andres, Canary Islands, Spain

Tropical beach at Maldives Island

San Andres village, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Teresitas Beach and San Andres, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

The Princess Mary Caravan. The Girls Friendly Society supported young women by help in finding work, providing hostels etc

Travelling Salesman failing to keep his expenses down
A travelling Salesman (for Sweatem, Grand & Co.) is spectacularly failing to keep his expenses down! He is piling through the whiskey, occupying a private room

Blackpool battered by storms on 18 January 2007. The storms that day killed 13 people across the UK in hurricane force winds. January 2007

Famous rock at Portizuelo beach at sunrise, Valdes, Luarca, Asturias, Spain

St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Vincent, Leeward Coast, Chateaubelair, elevated coastal view

USA, Hawaii, Poipu, coast at blowhole

RFA Argus of the shore of Sierra Leone
Image shows RFA Argus off the cost of Sierra Leone. Helicopter support ship RFA Argus is supporting the fight Ebola on OP Gritrock

RFA Argus in the distance, off the cost of Sierra Leone
Image shows RFA Argus in the distance, off the cost of Sierra Leone.A Landing craft is in the foreground along with a Raiding Craft

Wind surfing Algarve
Raisa Zwart

Hvalnes lighthouse
Elaad Zolberg

Pair Of Houses Proposal, Woldsea
An architectural drawing suggesting the plans for a pair of houses to be erected at Woldsea, a garden village project to be built in Lincolnshire

Woldsea Proposed Cottage Square
An architectural drawing suggesting the plans for a square of cottages to be erected at Woldsea, a garden village project to be built in Lincolnshire

Cover design, Do it yourself, March 1967 - attack that damp at half the cost Date: 1967

White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic rates
White Star Line, RMS Olympic and Titanic Second Class Rates. A ten page advertisement brochure issued by White Star Line, quoting 1912 Second Class rates for RMS Olympic and Titanic

RMS Titanic - letter to James Moody's sister
RMS Titanic - highly significant and historically important letter to Sixth Officer James Moody's sister. Dated 7 May 1912

Governor Macquarie
A portrait painting of Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, 1762-1824, a British Army officer and colonial administrator from Scotland, who served as the fifth governor of New South Wales between 1810 to 1821

Pirate Raid
Artwork that seems to show the raiding of pirates or smugglers at the cost of honest tradesmen. Date: circa 1928

Advertisement for Sunray Glass'. Health! Sturdy limbs and bronzed bodies come of the Ultra Violet Rays which windows of Sunray Glass admit to your home

People Before Profit demonstration, London
A People Before Profit demonstration in Upper Street, Islington, North London, against rent increases and property development. Date: 1974

Allied bombing compared with the Somme by G. H. Davis
Big damage at low cost: the Allied bombing offensive during the Second World War compared with one day's casualties on the Somme during the First World War

The cheap cost of gas
5308062 The cheap cost of gas. by Furniss, Harry (1854-1925); (add.info.: Cartoon commenting on the cheap cost of gas. Illustrated by Harry Furniss (1854-1925) an Irish artist and illustrator

Death presenting Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany with a harvest of the dead to celebrate his birthday, World War I
6000276 Death presenting Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany with a harvest of the dead to celebrate his birthday, World War I, 1915 (colour litho) by Damblans

Hindenburg, the German Moloch (colour litho)
6000340 Hindenburg, the German Moloch (colour litho) by Damblans, Eugene (1865-1945); Private Collection; (add.info.: Hindenburg, the German Moloch. Hindenburg, le Moloch Allenand)

Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany worried that Death will add his life to those sacrificed in the First World War
6000386 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany worried that Death will add his life to those sacrificed in the First World War (colour litho) by Damblans

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"Unveiling the true cost: From Schneider Trophy Air Race to Mount Pleasant Hotel, Kings Cross, London" "Discovering the hidden costs through history: Jersey Airways Poster to New York's Italian-American cafe espresso shop on M" "This cost a pretty figure: Exploring Merlin Enabnit's masterpiece and Josephine Baker's legacy" "Soho, London - NCP car park, Brewer Street W1: The price of convenience in the heart of the city" "Revisiting the Battle of Salamanca and Mormon Temple: The sacrifices made for faith and victory" "Cultivating dreams with cannabis seed starter kits at Bloemenmarkt, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Europe" "The F. A. Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, 1923: A legendary match that came at a great cost" "Navigating through Hampstead Tube.