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The tour starts with this excellent cameo shot which shows the heart and essence of Daventry, the Moot Hall, centre of local government during the 20th century, and the Burton Memorial, erected

The sloping Market Place leads up to the white-paint- ed clock tower of the town's octagonal Moot Hall, which was built in 1817.

Built in 1540, during the post-moot age really, this red brick and half-timbered Moot Hall would have been a hotbed of commercial and legal activities during the town's most prosperous

The Moot Hall has now been renovated, and looks worthy of its status as the Town Hall. This fine Georgian town house became the Moot Hall and residence of the Town Council around 1800.

In the background is the Moot Hall of c1540; in front is the war memorial, now surrounded by a garden.

These days, the timber-framed Tudor Moot Hall (moot is Old English for meeting) stands next to the beach. When it was built, it was right in the centre of town.

The former vicarage was renamed Moot House, and was used as a busy community centre.

This photograph, taken shortly after the war, shows the Moot Hall in a rather sorry state of repair.

The paved area in front of Moot House was a sunny meeting place with mature trees, flower boxes and seats.

Little more than a shingle beach protects the Moot Hall. Once it was centrally placed in the town, but the sea has carried away a number of streets, finally pausing here.

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.

Below Church Hill and the main street, Victoria Road provides us with our first glimpse of the sea and of the Moot Hall.

The monumental scale of the town hall is contin- ued inside the Moot Hall, a linguistic link to Anglo- Saxon Colchester.

A ferry was first recorded as being in use here in 1323, and when the idea for a footbridge was first mooted there was a great deal of opposition.

The timber-framed Tudor Moot Hall is situated next to the beach.

The Moot Hall, in the middle of the picture, was built c1435 by a member of the D'Arcy family.

The Moot Hall, in the middle of the picture, was built c1435 by a member of the D'Arcy family.

Dominating this photograph are the tall Moot Hall, now the Daventry Museum and tourist information centre, and the monument, which was erected by members of the National Hunt committee in memory of Edmund

This view looks south down Dunstable Street from Market Place; the Moot Hall is on the right with its slender iron-glazed casements.

Also featured are the Moot Hall, built 1810-12, and the much older Guildhall, which was completely rebuilt by Robert Trollop in 1655-58 and extended by John Dobson.

Here we see the top of the High Street, which is little changed today.The porchway on the left belongs to the Moot Hall, which was the town hall until 1974 and is now open to the public.

The Moot Hall was built c1540 in the Market Place, but coastal erosion has left it on the seafront.

The Moot Hall was built c1540 in the Market Place, but coastal erosion has left it on the seafront.

Looking down New Street to the Moot Hall, we can see on the right a brick Georgian house where many BBC trainees lodged in the 1960s.