{"id":638258,"date":"2026-06-14T13:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638258\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T13:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:03:10","slug":"work-at-portlands-victoria-gardens-tennis-courts-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/638258\/","title":{"rendered":"Work at Portland&#8217;s Victoria Gardens tennis courts complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Portland Town Council said the work on the courts at Victoria Gardens on the island had been completed, which included both courts having been remarked.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The courts are in Victoria Gardens (Image: Portland Town Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The entrance path had also been lowered to sit level with the gate making the facility fully accessible, it added.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There are new tournament regulation posts and nets as well as a new fence and gate.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;The new facility looks fantastic and is a great asset to the island and is free for all to use &#8211; we hope you enjoy using them,&#8221; said the town council.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The gardens in Portland were opened in 1904 to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria, which was in 1897.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>There are new tournament regulation posts and nets, said the posting (Image: Portland Town Council)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  There are grassed and formal bedding areas and a large rockery\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As well as the two tennis courts, there is also a bowling green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Town Council said the work on the courts at Victoria Gardens on the island had been completed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-638258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/638259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}