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| Isle of Portland's "gateway" (wrong place!) |
's gateway, apparently, which most of us on Portland would disagree with, knowing the real gateway is at ferry bridge, which sits on the other end of the causeway (beach road) leading off the island, from where the picture banner at the top of this blog was taken and...Notice that big square sign, that IS the Welcome to Portland sign!
Portland's gateway column bases are not to good at the moment in regards to what they are there for, sharing the names of those to remember.
Driving towards Portland as soon as you pass the Ferry Bridge pub that sits at the far end of Beach Rd on a windy day you soon know you are within Portland's boundary, worse on two wheels, be it a motorbike or push bike, the bridge now moved and strengthened was just past this pub, it was a dangerous one too.
The official reason the "gateway" was placed here may be that it's not close to moving traffic, one each side of the road as people would think of, which would be dangerous of course, yet some locals can't help thinking it was done to claim the sailing
academy, which is the other side of this gateway behind me, is then part of Weymouth....cynical, yes, true?Who knows?
Seeing as they keep referring to it as "Weymouth and Portland
" when it sit's in Portland Harbour alone, you can see why locals may think that.We know different as to where the real gateway to Portland is and that is, and always was, the other end of the Beach Road.
If there is a bridge to cross that's the boundary really as it crosses water, water (The fleet) that does make Portland an Island, apart from Chesil beach, and we all know that water to cross goes along the inside of the beach runs for quite a way... quite a walk with no bridge!
Boundary's and gateways are not created by councils, but communities.
Welcome to the Isle of Portland!
