Page One of Lowick Village

In 1998, I uploaded the first version of my "Lowick Village" website onto the Internet as one of my new retirement hobbies. It consisted of three pages with one image per page and was originally typed out in 'Word', (without the use of a web creation program), as part of an Internet course I attended at our local college to acquaint myself with computers. Since then, thanks to "Front Page", it has been expanded with the intention of providing information on Lowick Village and the beautiful North Northumberland countryside, as well as promoting local businesses and services.

Over the years, I have taken a substantial number of photographs of Lowick Village and the surrounding area, but apart from those displayed for short periods on the 'News & Local Events' page, only a small number actually made it to the pages of the main 'Lowick Village' site and have instead been relegated to storage disks, 'for future use'. I was also fortunate enough to be granted permission to display a number of 'bygone' images from private collections, and for this, I am most grateful, as they proved to be very popular, especially to those who can still 'remember when'.

During late 2007, it was suggested that I display a selection of these images on a permanent basis for the benefit of residents and visitors alike, and this, The Lowicknet Photo Gallery, is the result. I must point out, however, that I have very little expertise in photography and rely heavily on the clever imaging software of my camera. The modern images were intended as a means of showing off our village and the surrounding countryside to prospective visitors, or those having an interest in the area, and are in no way to be considered artistic, but I hope you will still enjoy browsing through them.

I must apologise in advance to those of you with a 'dial-up' connection. Whilst the images have been sized and compressed with this in mind, they may still take a little time to load, so I would ask for your patience. Since the images have been thus prepared, the resolution is unsuitable for anything other than website viewing, but anyone wishing a copy of a modern colour image is welcome to contact me and I will E-mail them an image file. I cannot, however, extend this courtesy to the 'bygone' images, as I do not have the authority and I would ask that visitors to the site respect this also.