Welcome to my web site which contains maps, stories, history, advice and about nine hundred photographs to help you explore Portland, Dorset - The Jewel of the Jurassic Coast.

A major revision of this website was completed in March 2008.

Most pictures are now displayed as 'thumbnails' giving access to full-screen, high resolution versions.

Over one hundred recent pictures have been added.

Pictures have also been added which match views of the same scene taken up to a century ago or more displayed on the excellent 'Steps In Time Project' website at www.isleofportlandpictures.org.uk

This website has been produced as a hobby and has no commercial affiliations. Any praise given is from the heart and has not been bought.

To explore Portland in Dorset please either go to the index map and then click in the square containing the area of interest, go to the gazetteer or go to a shortcut for the main tourist sites. The links page lists books, websites, maps, etc., which complement this website. 

The "Steps In Time - Images Project"

Treasured pictures are collected from individuals, scanned and archived and then returned to their owners.

Over five thousand pictures have so far been archived for posterity. A selection of these pictures are being displayed on a website. Please click on the picture at right to enter this archive. 

"Portland - Then and Now"

Stuart Morris's new book is a wonderful collection of old and new photographs of Portland showing over a century of change - compare the picture at right with the one above.

Stuart's book is available from bookshops and online at Amazon.co.uk - see http://tinyurl.com/y2qh4z

A series of remarkable 360 degree moving panoramas of Portland and Weymouth locations can be found by clicking on the picture above. These are excellent and almost as good as actually being there!

In 2007 I transferred all my domains and websites to 1&1. I've been delighted with their service, simplicity of use and reliability - and they worked out nearly GBP90 cheaper per year than my previous provider.

Please click on the message at right for more information.

A Guide to the Dorset and Devon World Heritage Coastline

Explore the world famous Dorset and East Devon Jurassic Coast. This site is the largest online resource dedicated to the Jurassic Coast containing maps, hundreds of video clips and thousands of pictures. With information on tourism, geology, fossils, wildlife, leisure activities and history, there is so much to see and do. Click on the logo at right to start exploring this 95 mile long stretch of remarkable coastline which has become England's first natural World Heritage Site - The Jurassic Coast.