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1,204 home pages made by people who collect, build, grow and mend things, every one looked at before it was listed.

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Try: signal boxes, first day covers, crystal sets. Last updated Sunday 5 December 1999.

  • 1,204 sites listed
  • 38 web rings
  • 61 added this month
  • 17 waiting to be looked at

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Model railways (214)

Layouts, Narrow gauge, Scratch building, Clubs

Stamps and coins (187)

First day covers, Swaps, Postmarks, Tokens

Gardens and ponds (243)

Allotments, Alpines, Koi, Greenhouses NEW!

Radio and electronics (156)

Short wave, Crystal sets, Valves, Kits

Kites and model aircraft (98)

Plans, Gliders, Flying fields, Festivals

Needle and thread (306)

Quilts, Cross stitch, Lace, Free patterns

New this week

  • The Shed at the End of the Line NEW! A narrow gauge layout in a garden shed, with a track plan and a diary of the build. Model railways, added 04 Dec 99
  • Postmarks of the Small Islands COOLA cool site is one the editor liked best that week. Five are picked each month. Three hundred scanned postmarks, sorted by island, each with its date. Stamps and coins, added 02 Dec 99
  • A Pond in One Weekend How one family dug it, lined it and filled it, and what went wrong. Gardens and ponds, added 30 Nov 99

All 61 of this month's sites...

Ring of the week

The Garden Railway Ring: 44 sites, every one with a train out of doors.

See all 38 rings

The December link check

Sites visited again 70%

843 of 1,204 looked at; 19 had moved or gone. Tell us about a dead link

Under construction: the page for clubs and societies opens in January

Model railways

214 home pages about small trains, indoors and out.

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  • The Shed at the End of the Line NEW! A narrow gauge layout in a garden shed, with a track plan and a diary of the build. added 04 Dec 99, 12 pictures, in the Garden Railway Ring
  • Signal Boxes I Have Known Cool! Drawings and measurements of forty real signal boxes, for people who want to build one. added 21 Nov 99, 40 drawings
  • Card Kits from Cereal Boxes Free sheets to print, cut and fold into station buildings. Slow to load but worth it. added 14 Nov 99, 9 sheets to print
  • The Attic Branch One man, one attic and eleven years. The timetable page is the best part. added 02 Nov 99, in two rings
  • Tuesday Night Club A club's page with its exhibition dates and a layout you can go and see. added 27 Oct 99, checked 01 Dec 99
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Web rings

38 rings of pages on one hobby. Step on anywhere and keep clicking Next.

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Key: OPEN taking new sites QUEUE a wait to join BROKEN a site in it has gone NEW! started this month Hits are counted from the ring's own buttons. How a ring works
Ring Kept by State Sites Hits a week
The Garden Railway Ring Trains out of doors, any scale. a signalman OPEN 44 1,310
First Day Cover Circle Collectors who show their covers. a retired postmaster QUEUE 61 2,048
Card Modellers NEW! Buildings from card and paper. two brothers OPEN 7 95
Short Wave Listeners Logs, aerials and verification cards. nobody at present BROKEN 23 402
Quilters' Ring of Friends One block a month, shown by everybody. a village sewing group OPEN 112 3,760
The other 33 rings are on page two and page three.

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How it works

What gets listed, what a ring is, and what to do about a dead link.

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A directory kept by hand

No robot reads these pages. A person does.

chronoskin began in 1996 as one page of bookmarks. Every site here has been visited by somebody who wrote the two lines under its name, and every site is visited again each December to see that it is still there.

What a web ring is

A ring is a chain of pages on one hobby. Each page carries a small box with three links, and the box is a few lines of markup that begin <!-- ring -->. From any page in the ring you can:

  • go on to the next page;
  • go back to the one before;
  • jump to one picked by chance.

How the links look

A link you have not followed, one you have visited, one under the pointer, one as you click it, a bold link and a small link.

Found a dead link?

Pages move and free hosts close. If a link here leads nowhere, tell us through the form and it will be mended or taken out.

Questions people ask

How long until my page is listed?

About a week. Somebody has to visit it first, and we all have other jobs.

Why was my page turned down?

Most often because it was not finished, or it was a shop.

May I be in more than one ring?

Yes, in as many as will have you. Put each ring's box at the foot of your page.

Can I change the two lines about my page?

Send the form again with the same address and the new words.

What makes a site "cool"?

The editor liked it. That is the whole rule.

The ring box

Every page in a ring carries this line at its foot:

The ring's keeper sends you the markup when your page is let in.

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