1975 What did the future hold for the Isle of Portland, Dorset? PFRG Seminar talk by Stuart Morris

October 1975. a lecture given at a weekend Seminar, to describe the state of the Island, and to look into the future of this unique part of the British Isles. Hosted by the Portland Field Research Group (PRFG) before a packed audience of residents, Planners, archaeologists, geologists, ecologists and historians, at Easton on Isle of Portland, Dorset. Speaker: Stuart Morris
Topics: South West Coastal Path; Royal Navy; Tout quarry park; Kingbarrow; High Angle battery; Verne Citadel; Sewerage; Water supply; population; proclamation; housing development;
00:00 Introduction
03:19 Derelict Quarries
04:25 The villages
05:55 Ancient fields
07:20 Ancient windmills
08:23 The quarries
10:23 Proposed Quarry Park
11:31 Historic Batteries
11:58 Tout quarry
13:20 Merchants Railway
15:21 Tout & Kingbarrow nature
16:39 Stone masonry
17:38 Verne Iron Age earthwork
18:42 Naval base
20:28 Water supply
22:35 Population
23:25 Southwell overdeveloped
23:36 Urban sprawl
25:36 Conservation areas
26:44 Housing estates
27:03 No amenities or facilities
27:25 Don't spoil the villages
27:44 Historic buildings
28:26 Microcosm of the Nation's problems
28:59 Landscape Conservation
30:15 Freedom to roam
31:13 Footpaths
32:17 Round the Island path
34:33 South West Coastal Path
35:12 Ancient Monuments
35:56 Listed Buildings, Monuments