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At the southern end of Back Street, mud walls survive opposite the 17th-century Old School building, and the turn-of-the-century Stone House displays the builder's artful use of a cheaper brick shell adorned

Further on, the local garage sells both Shell and BP petrol, and also offers car hire.

Halfway along the castle, Henry II's shell keep on the Norman Motte or mound divides the two baileys, the right-hand one filled with the massive Victorian rebuild.

Offering both Shell and British Petroleum, this was established beside what used to be the A351 road into the Isle of Purbeck.

Freshwater shell fossils, the fruits of ancient trees, and the fossilised remains of mammals can all be discovered.

Freshwater shell fossils, the fruits of ancient trees, and the fossilised remains of mammals can all be discovered.

The path (foreground) is now part of the South-West Peninsular Coast Path, Britain's longest national trail, all the way around the South-West Peninsula from Shell Bay to Minehead.

She would wander the sands hawking freshly-caught cockles and other shell-fish to the visitors.

The city has gained another luxury hotel, the Macdonald Holland, housed in the shell of what was originally the Julian Hodge building.

Because of its early date and association with St Piran, it was given protection from the elements and blown sands by the building of this rather unattractive shell.

The architect John Pearson completed the designs in 1872, and the shell was erected for a modest £8,850.

In the early hours of 28 December 1923 a devastating fire swept through the main buildings beside the Parish Church, and by daylight only a blackened shell remained.

The ruins are substantial, and include the curtain wall, three towers, a shell keep standing on a motte, chapel and halls.

The flower market was no less frenetic.

The Victorians were avid collectors of many things, and the rocks, pools and caverns around St Catherine's Island were abundant with shells, ferns, various crustaceans, starfish, jellyfish and seaweed

This Tenterbanks part of the college was begun in 1937, but the shell of the building was requisitioned by the military and was used as a store by the Americans during the war.

On the right is Sale's garage, with a Pratt's petrol pump delivering Shell fuel.

The chapel is one of the oldest in the country; the remains of its walls are 2ft 6ins thick, bonded with immensely strong mortar made by burning sea-shells – this method was used by the Romans.

Soon after the Conquest, the Normans built a wooden motte and bailey castle at Tamworth on the site of the Mercian fortifications of 913.This was replaced by the shell-keep and tower, which still

Described in 1549 as 'the round castle of Buitte callit Rosay of the auld', the first stone castle was a circular shell keep 142 ft in diameter with walls 30 ft high and 9 ft thick; four projecting drum

Dover was known as 'Hellfire Corner' in the last war, as it was bombed and shelled and many buildings were destroyed.

This area is now somewhat traffic-plagued, so that this peaceful scene is no more; the obelisk to the Prince of Orange, erected by Beau Nash in 1734 (restored in 1872), now occupies a railing-less traffic

The roundabout now houses a large public house and a Shell garage.

Its status as the mother church of Plymouth could not protect it from the Luftwaffe and in 1941 it was reduced to a shell.