A traction engine built in 1920 did many year’s of work hauling stone on Portland before starring in a 1960s film and then being preserved. Please click here.

For Portland’s two ancient windmills please click here.

Chesil has been flooded many times and a selection of pictures of old and recent inundations can be seen here.

To read about ‘Dodger’ Cutting, one of Portland’s characters please click here.

For fascinating  photographs of Marie Stopes and her family on Portland please click here

For Portland’s Merchants Railway please click here.

Visit Penn’s Bath - a fascinating structure built on the cliff edge near Wakeham two centuries ago. Please click here.