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

The font is early Perpendicular, and has cusped quatrefoils enclosing roses, leaves, shields and shells. The pulpit and pews are 17th-century.

The shell keep was rebuilt by Henry de Percy, and the second Earl is thought to have built the barbican and gatehouse around 1440.

Local resident the Hon Mrs Nelly Levy (later Ionides), the daughter of Shell Oil magnate Lord Bearsted, set out to save the rest of the estate.

These were also the days when building sand castles, watching Punch and Judy shows, searching for strange shells and swimming in the sea added up to the perfect holiday.

These shops were designed for the holidaymaker and included such establishments as cafés, souvenir emporiums, shell fish shops and so on.

And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.

And of course Stafford Castle - or the shell of it - still remains on top of the hill to the west of the town.

Two German cruisers took up station off Scarborough, and fired over 500 shells into the defenceless town.

Cubitt built every modern facility into the house, including the insulation of the ceilings with snail and other shells, and he also improved access to the estate — he had his own railway siding, as

After his friend's death Tennyson wrote: 'Farewell, whose living like I shall not find, My friend, the most unworldly of mankind'.

had a verse about local lad and Parliamentary general, Thomas Harrison: 'Son of a witch, Mayest thou die in a ditch, With the butchers who back up thy quarrels, And art above ground, While the world shall

In Norman times this was 'Schelling's Town', for the parish belonged to the Eschelling family.

After his friend's death Tennyson wrote: 'Farewell, whose living like I shall not find, My friend, the most unworldly of mankind'.

Bishop Storey built this superb Cross in 1501, on market land bought from the mayor and burgesses for £10, specifically so that 'the poore peple shall here after stand or sell eny Chafer (goods) Within

Fenton's proud boast carved in the stone that 'This Tower shall live in song and Wyresdale is its name' is now used as a doorstep in Abbeystead.

If it is not a Sunday, the lady and gentleman nearest to us are surely in their Sunday best, he with his boater and plus-fours and she all in pure white with matching parasol.

Isabella Dorling wrote to her fiancé, Sam: 'I was invited to Mr White's to-morrow evening, so shall have to go through that terrible ordeal, a dinner party'.

In the 17th century the wooden bridge became so dangerous that Lancaster Quarter Sessions ordered that 'the inhabitants of Thorneton of the east side of Thorneton bridge and the inhabitants of Stayno shall

On the right, Raymond's hair salon proudly advertises its offer of 'perms from fifteen shillings'.

In all probability we shall never ever know the answer, and the mystery will remain for all time.

It reverted briefly to Dottell Street in 1838 and acquired its present comparatively mundane title of Chell Road in 1841.