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

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

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

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

Comic postcard, Couple having picnic on the beach Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman and landlady Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman discusses runners training Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsmen discuss football match Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman and taxi driver Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Scotsman outside barbers shop Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, Woman watching ships sail by - 3 hours 2d Date: early 20th century

Comic postcard, Man short of money at the seaside. I ve no money left at the end of the week, but I ve got a lot of week left at the end of my money! Date: 20th century

Comic postcard, four Scotsmen spending a penny Date: 20th century

Advert, Cannon Towels -- absorb quickly, wear well, cost less. 1926

Cartoon, Why Coals Are Dear -- a satirical comment on the high cost of coals to ordinary working people, caused by Restricted Navigation and City Tax. Date: 1853

Map of London Underground railway, 1906
Map of the London Underground railway in 1906, showing its expansion in all directions. Date: 1906

Soya beans - a hint for hungry Europe 1921
Page from The Illustrated London News reporting on the possibilities of the soya bean as the solution to the cost of living in Europe

Cartoon, Thought-Reading, a comment on John Nevil Maskelynes doubts about the American stage mentalist, Washington Irving Bishop. 1885

Four Wheel Trailers double your truck capacity and cut your cost of hauling 50%. Showing trailers used by the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Cartoon by Gillray, a poor man goes hungry - wages were low and food prices were high, thanks to foreign wars, corn duty and a bad harvest. 1790s

Advert for Waverley electric car 1912
Waverleys new silent electric car with half the upkeep cost, made in Chicago, America. 1912

Poster, Careless Talk May Cost His Life, WW2
Poster, Careless Talk May Cost His Life. circa 1940

In Hammersmith Road, West London situated the fourth of the series of Rowton Houses, a poor mens hotel, for sixpences per night. Photograph showing the courtyard where the lodgers can relax

BATTLE OF TORGAU Friedrich der Grosse defeats the Austrians under Daun, brilliantly turning defeat into victory but at the cost of 13, 000 casualties Date: 3 November 1760

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