Aldeburgh, Esplanade 1894 (ref. 33355) | This view looks south from one of the two lookout towers on the beach. The yawls parked on the beach were organised into two companies, the 'Up-towners' and 'Down-towners', with their respective headquarters at the lookout towers. Intermingled with the boats are bathing machines, evidence of Aldeburgh's growing tourist industry. |  Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, Moot Hall 1894 (ref. 33360) | The timber-framed Tudor Moot Hall is situated next to the beach. When it was built, the meeting house was actually right in the centre of town, but coastal erosion over hundreds of years has swept away much of the old town, and left the beach almost next door to the building. | Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, Esplanade 1896 (ref. 38668) | Holidaymakers enjoy a stroll along the Parade. In the distance is a lookout tower, one of two. While there are recreational activities available on the beach, it is very much a working one, evidenced by the yawls on the shingle. | Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, the Lifeboat 'City of Winchester' 1903 (ref. 50426) | While most people imagine lifeboats generally to be launched from slipways, Aldeburgh lifeboats such as the 'Winchester' have always been launched straight from the shingle beach. Four years earlier, an Aldeburgh lifeboat suffered its worst disaster, capsizing with the loss of seven lives. | Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, the Beach 1906 (ref. 56817) | The ever-changing coastline has very much dictated the fortunes of Aldeburgh, but one thing which has not changed is the activity of local fishermen, who park their boats on the shingle bank which runs along the beach. Here, Edwardian bathers are braving the chilly East coast waters. | Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, Moot Hall 1906 (ref. 56822) | Here we see the Moot Hall from the beach. The building was once in the centre of a much larger town, but coastal erosion saw much of Aldeburgh lost to the sea. | Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, The Steps 1906 (ref. 56826) | The High Street is Aldeburgh's main area of activity, and from here the Town Steps lead off up a steep hill. Here grand houses enjoy a superb view overlooking the town and coastline below. | Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, Old Market Square 1929 (ref. 82976) | The poet George Crabbe was born in Aldeburgh in 1754. His poem about the embittered fisherman Peter Grimes inspired an opera by a much later and better known resident, Benjamin Britten. Just 14 years after this photograph was taken, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman Doctor of Medicine, became first woman mayor of an English borough when she took up office in Aldeburgh in 1908. | Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, Mill House 1909 (ref. 62012) | The tongues must have wagged when the first residents moved into the Mill House on Crags Path. It had been converted into living accommodation seven years previously by a monk who renounced his holy orders to take a Scandinavian wife! | Add your own Memory
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Aldeburgh, High Street 1894 (ref. 33362) | The broad High Street is mainly Victorian, peppered with Georgian buildings. The original Tudor town plan was based on a series of both parallel and converging streets, but erosion during the 17th and 18th centuries resulted in many houses being lost to the sea. | Add your own Memory
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Barton Mills, the Bull Inn 1925 (ref. 78288) | The pretty little village of Barton Mills, and the Bull Inn. In the 13th century, the local rector, Jacobus de Scabellis, became a cardinal, and ultimately, Pope Honorius IV. | Add your own Memory
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Beccles, from the Marshes 1894 (ref. 33332) | This view is from the marsh-lined River Waveney. In the days when trading wherries plied their way up and down the rivers, transporting goods from the East Coast sea ports, or from one town to another, Beccles was a thriving port. | Add your own Memory
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Beccles, Market Square 1900 (ref. 45096) | The Market Square of Beccles is overlooked by the detached tower of St Michael's church. The building on the left was home to the offices of the East Suffolk Gazette, with the ground floor taken up as a shop. | Add your own Memory
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Beccles, New Market 1950 (ref. B45045) | Sixty years on, Beccles has declined as a port, with goods being carried more by road. The church is unusual in that the 92 feet high tower is actually separate from the nave. | Add your own Memory
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Bildeston, the Square c1960 (ref. B766021) | The war memorial, clock tower and telephone box grace the Square. In the church nearby is a memorial to Captain Edward Rotherham, who commanded a ship of the line, the 'Royal Sovereign', at the Battle of Trafalgar. | Add your own Memory
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Blythburgh, the Church 1895 (ref. 36879) | Blythburgh was an important port in bygone times. In the same way as many other river ports, it lost trade when its waterways could no longer cope with the increasing draughts of cargo ships. The church, known locally as 'the cathedral of the marshes', with its 128ft nave and 83ft tower, presents an imposing landmark. It was over this church that a Liberator bomber exploded in August 1944, killing Joseph Kennedy, eldest brother of the late US president. | Add your own Memory
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Brandon, River Ouse 1925 (ref. 78270) | Tables and chairs are ready in a relaxing riverside setting. Barges once travelled up the Little Ouse as far as Brandon and Thetford, although here it is much more the province of pleasure boaters. | Add your own Memory
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Bungay, River Waveney c1955 (ref. B617002) | In the days when Bungay was a thriving port, trading wherries would come through Geldeston Lock near Beccles, and sail up the Waveney to what used to be the limit of navigation for large craft. Later on, the Waveney became limited to small pleasure boats, such as this rowing boat seen on a tranquil stretch of the river. | Add your own Memory
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Bungay, Market Place 1951 (ref. B617026) | A year after a fire razed most of Bungay to the ground in 1688, the Butter Cross was built to commemorate it. It is a pretty octagonal building with a dome surmounted by a figure of Justice; a cage underneath was used to hold the local felons to public ridicule, although by the time this photograph was taken, it was no longer in service! The board standing up against one of the pillars is offering a circular tour of Southwold and Lowestoft. | Add your own Memory
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Bungay, the Castle c1965 (ref. B617053) | Bungay was one of the seats of the powerful Bigod family, who built the castle here in 1170, making use of a loop in the River Waveney to provide a natural defence. When it fell into disuse, as with so many such buildings, the locals made good use of it as an abundant supply of building material. | Add your own Memory
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