{"id":1886,"date":"2015-09-07T10:46:43","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T09:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bos.cottage-search.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/the-story-behind-the-aldeburgh-scallop-shell\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:05:56","slug":"the-story-behind-the-aldeburgh-scallop-shell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestofsuffolk.co.uk\/blog\/the-story-behind-the-aldeburgh-scallop-shell\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind the Aldeburgh scallop shell&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic scallop shell on the beach between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness looked wonderful on Saturday afternoon with a touch of September sun shining off the four-meter high steel sculpture and the sea in the distance.\u00a0 Unveiled in 2003 as a striking tribute to Benjamin Britten &#8211; one of the twentieth-century&#8217;s most important composers who spent much of his life in Aldeburgh and nearby Snape; the Scallop was conceived by Suffolk-born artist Maggi Hambling, and made by Aldeburgh craftsmen Sam and Dennis Pegg.<\/p>\n<p><em>Our Business Development Manager, Annette Mason-Gordon, was in Aldeburgh Saturday afternoon &#8211; she can usually be spotted around Suffolk with her husband, two children and dog in tow!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bestofsuffolk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2022\/08\/IMG_0337.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-13061 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bestofsuffolk.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2022\/08\/IMG_0337.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0337\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic scallop shell on the beach between Aldeburgh and Thorpeness looked wonderful on Saturday afternoon with a touch of September sun shining off the four-meter high steel sculpture and the sea in the distance.\u00a0 Unveiled in 2003 as a striking tribute to Benjamin Britten &#8211; one of the twentieth-century&#8217;s most important composers who spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":1887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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