IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Grove Road, PORTLAND, DT5 1DZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Grove Road, DT5 1DZ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (96 Images Found)
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Portland Youth Offenders' Institute
Many HMPs are grim from the exterior and Portland YOI is no exception. The high stone walls are forbidding. Today the sun shines, but often it is very wet and windy here.
Image: © Tom Jolliffe
Taken: 6 Jan 2012
0.03 miles
2
HM Prison Portland, Grove
Victorian prison opened in 1848, now a male Adult/Young Offenders Institution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Portland
Image: © Vieve Forward
Taken: 7 Sep 2021
0.04 miles
4
Tall grey walls
Grove Prison, now HMYOI Portland stands foreboding at the eastern end of the island.
Image: © Jonathan Billinger
Taken: 19 May 2009
0.06 miles
5
HM Prison Portland Adult & Young Offender Institute (YOI)
Originally opened in 1848 as an adult convict establishment, it became a Borstal in 1921, and a YOI for adult males aged 18-21 in 1988. In April 2011 the prison became an Adult/Young Offender establishment.
Image: © Mike Searle
Taken: 3 Mar 2020
0.06 miles
6
Victoria Road, Grove
Housing presumably originally provided for prison staff.
Image: © Jonathan Billinger
Taken: 19 May 2009
0.06 miles
7
Portland Young Offenders' Institute
This view of the Portland Young Offenders' Institute is taken from St George Portland across a recreation ground from Wide Street.
Image: © Tom Jolliffe
Taken: 27 Feb 2012
0.06 miles
8
HM Borstal, Portland, 1962
The original gateway of 1848 to what was originally an adult prison, later becoming a Borstal. Listed Grade II.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: Unknown
0.07 miles
9
HM Borstal, Portland, 1962
Now categorised as a Young Offenders Institution. This is the East Cell Block of 1898, Listed Grade II. At the time, Portland was the Borstal equivalent of Dartmoor Prison, where the most serious offenders were detained.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: Unknown
0.07 miles
10
Young Offender Institution
Formerly known as the Convict Prison. Below can be seen the route of an old railway. This once climbed from near sea level at the north end of the island along the east coast before circling up into the centre near Easton.
Image: © Pierre Terre
Taken: 11 Aug 1999
0.07 miles