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Barricane Beach, also known as Shell Beach, is small and difficult to reach. It was given its local name because of the diversity of shells gathered there.

When rebuilt in stone it featured both a shell keep and a shell gatehouse.

It was extensively rebuilt in the 13th century with a shell keep, bailey wall, and a strong gatehouse on the south-west side.

Known as Shell Beach because of the number of sea shells to be found here, this beach's real name is Barricane Beach.

Around 1830 Molly Hanbury, the wife of one of the most successful ironmasters in the country, commissioned the decoration of the grotto with shells, crystals and bones.

With the decline of coking coal as a fuel, benzole production fell, and in 1957 National Benzole was acquired by Shell-Mex & BP Ltd - and Leonard North's garage is now selling Shell petrol

When rebuilt in stone in 1272 it featured both a shell keep and a shell gatehouse. Also known as Alisby's Castle, it occupied a high vantage point over the Usk.

In those days, the beach area would often be a hive of activity, including donkey rides, ice cream and sweet stalls, shell fish and oyster sellers.

village of the Kent Weald, with its weatherboarded cottages clustered round its green, Bethersden was once famous for its paludrina marble extracted from the local clay and consisting of the fossilised shells

Gunfield House, now a hotel, took its name from One Gun Fort, where gunnery officers trained by shelling the opposite bank.

The parade of shops at the junction of Reigate Road and Brighton Road has an unfamiliar appearance without traffic lights and the extensive Shell Garage.

On the left is West's Garage, offering Shell petrol and BP car batteries.

Margate suffered from both bombing and shelling during the First World War, and many people left the town.

The grounds here were laid out in the 1700s with all sorts of follies - a shell-lined grotto, a ruined castle, a rickety bridge over a narrow chasm, even a resident hermit.

During the last war it was reduced to a mere shell but has since been restored to its original glory. Its tower is a noted land- mark over the city.

Motorists drive this way today to visit the shell keep of the medieval castle standing high above the Fowey valley.

The shell remains as a walkway through to Carlton Street, and it stands next to the 1905 Carnegie Library.

It was a late 16th-century building that underwent a makeover in 1692: this was when the shell-hood was added to the doorway, the pargework (or decorative plasterwork) executed, and the pub's name

On the left a well publi- cised garage displays the AA insignia and advertises Shell petrol.

The view is of Sandbanks Ferry from Shell Bay looking towards Poole's sandy peninsula. The chain ferry began in 1926, saving 15 miles on the journey to Swanage.

A dummy smock mill, this was built as an empty shell with no milling machinery. It was built to replace an earlier mill that was destroyed by fire. Now conserved, it forms part of a busy guesthouse.

The shell of the mill tower has now been slightly reduced in height and converted into a private house.

Here it is seen in its full glory, creeper-clad and, frankly, rather unattractive, before the disastrous fire of 1933 which left it a shell.

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