The fishing boats at Aldeburgh launch and sell their catch straight off the beach.

These fishermen's sheds are used to store equipment and to sell their catch
straight form the boats; you can't get fish much fresher than that.

The new lifeboat shed looks very futuristic against the quaint old buildings of Aldeburgh.

The rudder from one of the very early Aldeburgh lifeboats.

The inscription.

The old moot hall was erected around 1520 and was used for
around 400 years as the town meeting place; it now houses a
museum. It used to be situated in the centre of the town, but due
to coastal erosion now stands only a few metres from the sea.

The river Alde, which is only separated form the sea by a very narrow shingle bank.

This Martello tower, the most northerly of a chain built around the south
coast for defence against the Napoleonic invasion was started in 1806,
it has 7 foot thick walls and millions of bricks were used in it's construction.
After 6 years construction it was abandoned, never to be finished.