Supporting the Halesworth Museum's Malt Experience at the Cut and their complimentary trail around the Town.

Maltings in Quay Street in 1883, note the maltings in the New Cut and in Station Yard are still to be built. The other malting was the Gearge Maltings, neat the Angel Link roundabout.

Halesworth in Bloom will be supporting this important and very exciting project in several ways. Firstly we are working to improve the floral ambience outside The Cut Maltings and The New Cut itself. Look at the new exit garden created by us for the sheltered bungalow on the corner with the Norwich Road and sponsored by the Cut. At the Cut we want to add planting such as barley and poppies to give a flavour of the raw ingredient barley before it is malted.

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally. It was one of the first cultivated grains, particularly in Eurasia as early as 13,000 years ago. Barley is used , as a source of fermentable material for beer which is the process going on in all our Town Maltings in the past.
Locally the malted barley was carried in wherries down to the sea along our old Navigation Canal through locks like the one at the entrance to the Town Park at Langley Quay - (why it is called a Quay.)

A Norfolk wherry was similar to those in Halesworth - a flat bottomed boat carrying cargo. Our Town Park has the start of the Halesworth Navigation a canal with locks linked to the River Blyth created when the river silted up allowing wherries to travel between Halesworth and the Sea at Southwold.

An outline wherry the exact length of 40 feet is being placed in our Park beside the Path leading to the Millennium Green entrance. it will be made from locally sourced wood with a steel inlay map to show the whole Navigation with all the locks from Halesworth to Southwold.
​inside this outline Halesworth in Bloom will be planting low red sedums to indicate the cargo of malted barley in sacks.