Aldeburgh, Suffolk
The
main lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, with a
crew of volunteers, used to be constantly ready to be launched from
an incline on the beach south of the Moot Hall. In adition there
is a rubber boat for work near the coastline when the weather is
good. Aldeburgh has had lifeboats since 1826, and many vessels
and sailors have been rescued with them; up to 1993 use was made
of a lifeboat (picture on the right) named after James
Cable, a coxswain who lived in Aldeburgh and who
was a legendary rescuer who was decorated nationally and internationally several times.
According to the RNLI "Aldeburgh celebrates 180 years as a lifeboat station in 2006, with the first lifeboat being placed at Sizewell in 1826 by the Suffolk Association. Fifteen Medals have been awarded for outstanding rescues during the station’s history, the last in 2000."
The Aldeburgh Festival of Music and the Arts has acquired an international reputation. It was established in 1948 by the composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) and the baritone singer Peter Pears (1910-1986) and Eric Crozier, and is held every year in June. Some concerts are given in local churches in the surroundings, but the Maltings in Snape, which has superior acoustics thanks to its wooden roof, forms the centre of the event. Adjacent to it is the Britten-Pears School of Advanced Musical Studies.
Aldeburgh also takes pride in its poet George Crabbe (1795-1832), and in England’s first woman doctor and Mayor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917), elected in 1908.
External links
James
Cable
Aldeburgh 180 years lifeboat station
George Crabbe
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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