Social
heritage
The social heritage of Maker Heights
Maker Memories, the Community Heritage and Archive Group Award winning community based oral history project, captures the social and cultural importance of Maker Heights through interviews, film, photography and ephemera.
Most of the information for this section of our web site has been drawn from this archive. Maker Memories was funded by The Box, in recognition of the importance of this aspect of the heritage of Maker Heights.
Contemporary images © Dom Moore. All other images courtesy Maker Memories, with thanks to all those that have contributed their personal collections.
Maker Heights social heritage
Maker Camp 1920s-1980s
From the 1920s to the mid-1980s Maker Camp offered children and young people the opportunity to experience a holiday by the coast in an area of outstanding rural beauty.
The Nissen Huts
The Nissen Huts stood out as an important part of many people’s stories, from both the children who stayed at the post WW2 summer camps, to those who worked at and visited the Nissen Huts in the various educational projects from the early 2000s onwards.
Music at Maker 1999-2016
Maker has an established reputation for its inspirational music culture, which has nurtured local musicians through its youth music work, some of whom have achieved impressive followings, including Land of the Giants, Haunt the Woods, Hillside Heroes, Woodland Blue and Thomas Calladine.
Art at Maker
Since the early 1990’s Maker Heights has been home to a wide variety of visual artists, sculptors, print-makers, photographers, filmmakers, artisans and ceramicists.
Maker Memories
Maker Memories is a volunteer led community project designed to capture the rich and diverse heritage of Maker Camp on the Rame Peninsula.
Image © Dennis Clark
