Moot Hall, Suffolk

Moot Hall, in the seaside town of 

Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England

1915

"Its age is uncertain but it is shown on a map of 1594 (preserved in the Moot Hall) as being several streets back from the front, testimony to the relentless encroachment of the North Sea. Today the building houses a museum."

 http://www.visit-suffolkcoast.co.uk/aldeburgh-old-postcards 

"A moot hall is meeting or assembly building, traditionally to decide local issues. In Anglo-Saxon England, a low ring-shaped earthwork served as a Moot hill or moot mound, where the elders of the hundred would meet."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moot_hall

What does "elders of the hundred" mean, you ask?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_%28division%29