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Shell House showcase: The Shell Room, Neues Palace, Potsdam

margarethull8

7 days ago
1 min

Shell House showcase: The Shell Room, Neues Palace, Potsdam

The Shell Room (c1759) is a stunning example of shell architecture within the Neues Palace, Potsdam.

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Shell House showcase: The Pleasure Garden, Painshill, Surrey

margarethull8

Feb 21
1 min

Shell House showcase: The Pleasure Garden, Painshill, Surrey

Discover The Pleasure Garden at Painshill in Surrey. A stunning landscape garden complete with a grotto.

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margarethull8

Jan 17
4 min

Neptune: From Sea to City

There is a majestic Neptune Fountain, the Neptunbrunnen (1891) currently before the rathaus, the red town hall in east Berlin. It was cre...

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Big Travel – then Locked into Little Travel

margarethull8

Jan 3
3 min

Big Travel – then Locked into Little Travel

The cusp of 2019-20 saw us in Poole, Dorset photographing shell carvings, returning to lectures in Gloucester and Wiltshire before flying...

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margarethull8

Feb 4, 2020
2 min

A Shell House Arcadianza!

In our extensive travels we have assessed and photographed over 300 authentic Shell Houses and Grottoes in Britain, Ireland and Europe. T...

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New Decade, Extended Shell House Website

margarethull8

Jan 16, 2020
1 min

New Decade, Extended Shell House Website

Followers of our website will know that as writers/lecturers we have spent over 10 years exploring England, Wales and Ireland and noted t...

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margarethull8

Dec 30, 2019
2 min

Aphrodite and Venus. Sex and the Shell

This is a small indication of aspects of a new work in progress, Conchinilia Journey III. We have 25K words so far and over 90 photos set to

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