My Favourite Things
Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens? NO....
Whitby Jet |
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Fossils |
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My main passion in life is collecting Whitby Jet and
Fossils.
In 1998 I decided to use my AOL homepage to share
my fossils with others via the Internet and produced my first 'Fossils'
page. This page proved quite popular according to the free WebCounter so I
decided to put up another page about Whitby Jet. Apart from the occasional
updates, these pages stayed pretty much the same until October 2008.
In
2008 AOL decided to no longer give customers free webspace so I had to decide
whether to lose my website or rent some space on a server and get my own URL.
The latter won, mainly because of the number of 'hits' I had been getting on my
pages. In early 2009 I became jmfelton.com and started renting server space
from Heart Internet.
Because I put my email address on the site I would
get the occasional query, usually about Whitby Jet, and usually about how to be
sure it was genuine. As a result I wrote the Jet Identification pages. Being an
avid 'ebayer' I used to check what prices Jet was selling for and I noticed that
a lot of black jewellery was being incorrectly sold as Whitby Jet. This
encouraged me to write page three of the Whitby Jet Identification pages, the
rogues gallery of 'Not Jet'.
In March 2009 I added a guestbook to my
site, the majority of postings have been from people who wanted to show me
their Jet or ask for advice about Jet. As I now have 5 gigs of webspace compared
to AOL's measly 30 megs I have set up a forum to give people the opportunity to
show off, discuss and ask questions about Whitby Jet, Fossils, Minerals and
Crystals.
September 2009. A day trip to Whitby has resulted in a page of pictures of Jet Shops of Whitby.
I hope you enjoy your visit to my little patch of
cyberspace.
John F.
Preston,
Lancashire, UK