Notes to extracts from the Portland Year Book for 1905: as the original layout was, shall we say unusual, no doubt with a view to speeding up printing of items that were going to be late, I have taken the liberty and opportunity of this medium to combine like topics and would hope that this will aid research rather than hinder. Whilst transcribing I note the occasional transcription or printing error within the original (but have made no corrections), and no doubt I am equally guilty of same - so please remember that this is a transcript of what in effect is also a transcript and it should be used as such and not a source!

Please also note that "some" items are not particular to Portland ie on occasion they also cover Weymouth, West Dorset and in one or two instances the whole of Dorset. I have attempted to show this by including the appropriate items under separate headings. PB

• Introduction
• Diary of Events that Occurred during 1904-05
• Churches and Chapels - Historical Notes - Incumbents & Ministers and Missions
• St Andrews Church
• Jubilee Hall
• Political Associations
• Schools: Teachers and Managers
• Football and Cricket Teams etc: Officials (also includes a few for Weymouth)
• Societies, Associations and Clubs
• Railways
• Banks
• Some Companies Trading on the Isle of Portland - c 1905
• The Portland Volunteers
• Portlanders
• The Convict Prison
• Portland Royal Dispensary
• Portland's Public Gardens
• "Maister's School"
• The Masonic Hall
• Nos. of Births and Deaths in 1904
• Court Leet
• Portland Quarries and Stone Output
• Portland's Geology
• Weather 1904
• Miscellaneous

• Portland Urban District Council: Committee Members and Officials
• The Portland Year Book 1905
• The Rates (Local Taxes) of Portland
• Contrasts in Local Expenditure 1871-1904
• Income and Expenditure 1904
• Water Supply
• The Drainage Scheme
• The Ferry Bridge
• Portland Fire Brigade
• Portland Gas Works
• Mr. Henry Sansom
• History Of Portland's Local Government
• Portland Urban Council Elections 1894-1905

• Pre-historic Portland
• Chronology of the Island from 700 to 1905 AD
• History, Charters & Antiquities of Portland
• Transcript of those in receipt of Poor Money in 1697
• Castles and Old Buildings etc
• Portland in Literature

• Maritime Information
• Easton Massacre
• The Great Gale of 1824 - Loss of Pier
• Lighthouses
• Weymouth Port Sanitary Authority
• Notable Wrecks

• Government Departments
• Courts, Legal Etc.
• Consuls & Vice-consuls

• Supdt. Registrar, Inland Revenue & Income Tax: officials
• Board of Guardians: including Portland and Weymouth
• Rural District Council

• County Councillors and Aldermen
• County Statistics
• Courts
• Dorset Parliamentary Elections: 1885 - 1905
• Police
• Rural District Councils - Populations Etc

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