This evening I want to share with you a trip I took this weekend to the tiny fishing port of Polperro in Cornwall. Just along from the harbour is The Shell House. In 1937, a local naval man, Samuel Puckey, began encrusting the front of the townhouse with shells. The design that is present today is different from the original (of which I can find no record yet!) but does still feature scenes of the sea including a ship and Eddystone Lighthouse, as well as a flock of seagulls.
Here are some postcards of it in the 1960s, it doesn’t look like it has fared too badly, although I do like the jaunty green and yellow railings better than the black ones: