Yoxley Old Place - Sherlock Holmes on the Web
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| Name: | Yoxley Old Place - Sherlock Holmes on the Web |
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| Dates: | 1997 - December 15, 2002 (last updated) |
| Type: | fan resource |
| Fandom: | Sherlock Holmes |
| URL: | Reocities copy WayBack Machine copy on Webring.com |
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Yoxley Old Place was a Sherlock Holmes fansite run by Porlock. It was hosted on GeoCities, but later moved to www.sherlockian.com (now defunct). The site, a massive index of resources and links, was divided into the following sections: [Commonplace Book] [News & Tips] [Floor Plan] [Baker Street] [Reference Library] [History] [Web Rings] [Legal Stuff] [Acknowledgements] [Awards] [Priory School].
The site included a chronology of the canon publications, information on Sherlockian societies, information on Conan Doyle's non-Sherlockian works, Jay Finley Christ's abbreviations for the Sherlock Holmes canon stories,[1] John Bennett Shaw's Basic Holmesian Library, republished scholarly works on the canon, and some of the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Also included were links to items on Amazon, over 1200 other Sherlockian fansites, canon resources, fan events, non-canonical Holmes stories, and Holmes stories for/by kids.
Yoxley Old Place won several awards and was a GeoCities A-List site in 1998. It was also profiled in The New York Times in 1999.[2]
The site is documented here as part of the OTW's GeoCities Rescue Project.
- ^ In 1947, Jay Finley Christ devised the system of abbreviation that is still in use in the modern fandom: each canon story is represented by the first four letters of the first "significant" word in the title. See Story Abbreviations at Sherlock Peoria for the complete list.
- ^ Michael Pollack, Unraveling the mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, The New York Times, December 2, 1999.