Most would agree that Town Halls are normally found in the centre of a town. Indeed this was the case for Aldeburgh’s Moot Hall when it was built in the 1570s.
Still used as the Town Hall today it is also the home of the Aldeburgh Museum. However, nowadays it no longer resides in the middle of the town but on the sea front, next to the beach, as a result of the encroaching sea and coastal erosion over the last 500 years.
The Aldeburgh Museum has joined forces with CoastNet for Holding Back the Tide and will be providing information and images about the changing coastline and its impacts to Aldeburgh and the local area with a special focus on the lost village of Slaughden as part of Aldeburgh Primary School’s Holding Back the Tide project.
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