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 Malting was a village industry for a very long time, although we have few
facts to show for it. The maltkiln in the photograph stood on the eastern side of Low Burgage where the new Chapel is built. It was owned in the middle of the nineteenth century by John and Isaac Burkill
, and was later sold to Moon and Robsons who continued to use it until the early years of the twentieth century. There was a second maltkiln in Winteringham in West End. (see lower photograph)
According to the 1851 census, there were two men who gave their trade
as ‘Maltsters.’ These were 56 year old William Harrison who lived in High Burgage, and William Warburton (43) from Low Burgage.
The 1901 Census reveals that there were still two maltsters in the
village. These were Winteringham-born Williamson Warburton (aged 52) who we can speculate was the son of William Warburton above, and living in West End. The other maltster was one Enock Coupland who
lived in Low Burgage and was 64 years old, being born at Theddlethorpe, out in the Lincolnshire Marsh.
By the time this photograph was taken in 1965, it was being used for short-term storage (sugar beet at that precise
time), and had been partially burnt down in 1964
 The photograph (right) shows the other maltkiln in the
village, in West End, on the corner opposite Cowgangs. The cottages in the centre foreground were demolished in the early 1950s, by which time the maltkiln had already gone.
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