We're Still Here: Celebrating Maker Camp Centenary 1923-2023
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- Опубликовано: 18 июл 2023
- This short film was produced by Rame Conservation Trust and Maker Memories to mark the centenary of Maker Camp 1923-2023.
The film traces the social and cultural history of the site from 1923 onwards showing how the past is inextricably linked to the present via a series of threads: connecting people to nature; art; music and well-being.
Film maker: Tom Kirkman
Poet: Jason Butler
Creative team: Lyvinia Elleschild, Julian Gray, Cathy Green, Dom Moore
About Rame Conservation Trust
Rame Conservation Trust was established to conserve and manage the internationally important military heritage site at Maker Heights and keep it open for public benefit.
If you would like to support the Trust, please consider joining us. Membership costs just GBP 10 per person per year. Join here: membermojo.co.uk/rct
www.rameconservationtrust.org.uk
About Maker Memories
Maker Memories is an award-winning community archive project. See www.makermemories.org for further information on the social and cultural history of Maker Heights.
Still Here
Jason Butler
There is a place atop a hill
White walled, calm and still
By rolling fields and ceaseless sea
A century of sanctuary
By Astor’s hand, a grand design
A respite during bleaker times
An ancient barracks redeployed
For underprivileged girls and boys
A home from home, with open doors
For those in need, the young and poor
A retreat to nature, green unspoiled
Its strong roots deep in fertile soil
Reaching out beyond the Sound
To the cobbled streets of Plymouth town
A piper’s call across the Hoe
A siren song of ebb and flow
In Charabancs came hopes and dreams
And ferries bursting at the seams
On rising tides they came ashore
With eyes alive and wide with awe
Brought to life, some fairy tale
Exploring seas with billowed sails
Tales of old in sepia tone
Adventurers in monochrome
Skimming stones across the foam
Connect to nature, free to roam
Beneath the ageless firmament
An evolving sense of permanence
Each memory, steeped in history
A vibrant thread of tapestry
A century past, those threads persist,
Pulled together, tightly knit
A patchwork unified and stitched
A harmony in perfect pitch
Young or old, the same song sung
Those voices speak in unison
Of freedom, nurture, light and joy
Self-expression, art and noise
A strong connection found inside
Unleashed with doors flung open wide
The present echoes with the past
Experiences forged to last
The ghosts of laughter in the rafters
All those happy ever afters
The resonated melodies
A therapy for maladies
A hub for creativity
This forgotten corner, by the sea
bestowed throughout with rare life force
As all are welcome through the doors
Feel their warmth within the walls
Actors, poets, troubadours
Performers, craftsmen, artisans
Revellers in camper vans
Movers, shakers, renovators
Custodians and innovators
Maker’s home to these and more
Her reach extends to distant shores
Whose preservation perseveres
Through trust and care of volunteers
All here to stay, the message clear
A hundred years, and we’re still here
Poem commissioned in 2023 by Rame Conservation Trust and Maker Memories to mark the centenary of Maker Camp 1923-2023 
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Love this place so much. So many great memories. 💚
Such a beautiful place to hang out, let's hope it always stays that way for everyone to enjoy.
Superb! Brings back to me so many memories.
What a beautiful tribute. I've never been but i feel a part of it through these glorious memories and ambitions! 🎉
Perfect
I often search for Maker camp on the internet. I went there once as a young boy from the east end of London, I was perhaps 10 years old which would have put it at around 1969. I have tremendous - albeit fragmentary - memories of my time there and the utter fun I had. I wasn’t at all homesick even though this was the first time I had been away from home on my own. My biggest memory is of the concrete/stone steps at the end of the long block which it was nice to see in this video! I also have a “memory” of standing on the cliffs and seeing a viking longship out at sea! Whether this was a real memory or not I can’t say for certain, but in my mind it was.
I only went once and I don’t know why. I suspect that it was to give my grandmother some respite (she raised me from the age of three) as the preceding year she lost her husband (my grandfather) and her parents (who lived next door) within three months of each other.
I’m almost 65 now and spent just a week at Maker, but it made a HUGE impact on me and those fragmented memories still remain today.
Thank you so much.
What lovely memories @TheWizardOfTheFens. Thanks so much for sharing. We'll try to find out if there was ever a viking longship in the area!! We hope you'll come back and visit at some stage. In the meantime, you might like to keep in touch with what's happening on site via the Rame Conservation Trust facebook page.