The Maltmaker is the result of a £30,000 project to commemorate the malting industry in and around Ware. The 7 1/2 foot bronze statue of a malting worker with his cat was sculpted by Jill Tweed. It was unveiled in November 1999 by Huge Page Croft, a founder of the Moray Firth Malting Company. The last maltings, of the 22 that were in Ware, closed in the 1990s. The nearest surviving maltings is French and Jupps in Stanstead Abbotts.
