Bit of a chance this place really. The whole site is mostly an upmarket shopping area, with crafts and gifts and furniture being many of the articles on sale. There is also a very large concert hall. Nearly everything has been incorporated into the old maltings. The concert hall is stunning and everything here has been converted very sympathetically. But in one corner is a few derelict parts. Three years ago I had a quick look whilst at he shops and seen the buildings. Then went back a few months ago with man gone wrong and we went in and investigated properly. The mill goes up several floors. The upper floors are stripped but on the lower floors their are a couple of nice bits off machinery but very dark. Was also some old nice vintage sacks dotted about. The malting were first built in the 1840's by the industrial entrepreneur Newson Garrett. The site was built up extensively over a few decades, they even built a branch line from the east Suffolk railway to support the business. Up too three trains a day would run to and from the maltings. The site at peak was seven acres in size and one of the largest flat floor maltings in the country. The maltings was built to process malt barely then it was shipped by barge to London to supply the breweries. The maltings closed in 1965 and in 1967 the maltings were purchased by a local farmer. And the whole site grew from there. The main concert hall was built in the main building and was opened by the queen in 196. The building suffered dire damage two years later and was rebuilt in 1970. It was one of the first industrial buildings repurposed for arts.
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