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They would try to peddle such things as rock, drinks, postcards, paper windmills, shells, beads and flowers.

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

Directly above St Michael's Church (right) one can see Abbey House and the ruined shell of the classical banqueting hall built by Sir Hugh Cholmley in 1672, roofless since the 1790s; at the

Farrer's second son, Major Henry William Francis Blackburne Farrer if the Royal Field Artillery, would be killed at the age of 24 by a German shell in France, only days before the end of the Great War

The ruined shell keep in the south-west corner of Pontefract Castle dates from the mid-13th century, when it was rebuilt in a polygonal form similar to those at Knaresborough, Southampton, Roxburgh and

From 1924, Cliff Ward ran the North End Garage on York Road, complete with a Shell petrol pump.

The listed Grade II* late 17th-century three-storey house on the left, with a magnificent carved shell hood over the doorcase, is Odiham's most splendid house.

The erection of the stone shell keep began about 1156; it underwent extensive remodelling during the 14th century, when Thomas, third Lord Berkeley, had two of the semi-circular bastions replaced and two

The Stonecot Garage has been rebuilt since the time of this picture and is now a Shell petrol station.

The earliest castle on the site was built during the reign of William the Conqueror, but the present structure dates from 1156, when work began on the stone shell keep.

On the left, Shell and Exide petrol pumps, a sign for Park Drive cigarettes, and new-style windows fitted into dwellings indicate progress.

The lifeline between Poole and Purbeck, crossing between Sandbanks (right) and Shell Bay (left), is the Floating Bridge.

Though largely dismantled, the shell of the façade and tower were fortunately preserved.

Situated on the north bank of the Medway, the original motte and bailey castle was replaced with stone by the early 13th century, when the shell keep was built.

It is ground-up sea shells, heated and mixed with boiling water to give a cement-like substance.

This view within the courtyard of the castle shows it after the 1770s stripping out to a hollow shell for the building of Herstmonceux Place, a house designed by Samuel Wyatt.

Robert de Belesme is thought to have begun building the circular stone shell keep; the work continued under Henry I and Henry II after Arundel had become a royal fortress.

This massive works was erected in 1915 for the production of artillery shells in the build-up to the big push on the Somme in 1916.

The 18th-century mansion at Shillinglee Park was burnt out in the Second World War; the shell is conserved.

time someone had raced to Birkenhead to alert the fire brigade, and they had harnessed the horses to the fire tenders and galloped back to Wallasey, little remained of the church apart from a charred shell

This shows the view looking along Reading Road, past the current Post Office and the Shell petrol pump, to the junction with Friday Street and into Duke Street as it heads towards the Market Place.

The font is early Perpendicular, and has cusped quatrefoils enclosing roses, leaves, shields and shells.

The Shell Mex buildings (BP House) then replaced the bridge at the entrance to the town, but was closed in 1983 due to structural problems and later demolished.

Apsley Mills came under the technical control of the Ministry of Munitions and Nash Mills made mortar bombs and small shells.