MEMO Portland says it will utilise the vast disused stone mines on the Portland peninsula to create an attraction celebrating ...

Portland stone is a creamy-white limestone quarried from the Isle of Portland on the Dorset coast. Though this Jurassic-aged rock started life as a seafloor sediment it now adorns the buildings ...

“Portland Stone had the advantage that it was easy to work – a mason could carve it quite easily – but it was very resistant to pollution in comparison to other similar stones.

Portland stone also went into the Gilded Age palaces of railroad tycoon William H. Vanderbilt and Nevada silver king James C. Flood, who had brownstone shipped all the way around Cape Horn to San ...

"Portland Stone was formed at the end of the Jurassic period, around 145 million years ago when what is now Portland, was much closer to the equator than it is today. A chemical reaction in the warm, ...

Twelve giant stones weighing 250 tonnes have been unveiled as part of a bid to raise awareness of the environment. The Memory Stones at Portland, Dorset, have been positioned for the sun to cast ...

It is also politically divisive – and, in Hansard, Portland stone’s use is largely championed by Conservatives. In 1945 one Conservative MP described meeting a quarry-worker who observed that: “I have ...