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Farmer's Quotes

Dive straight in and have a quick listen to these interesting snippets from our farmers to learn about how life was back then in their lovely old Isle of Wight accents. They’re generally less than a minute long and there’s hundreds of them for you to enjoy. Just click /touch to hear them.

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Picking spuds at Roslin Farm

Beryl Flux on Harvest time

Hurdles and sheep

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas and Sheep

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas and Sheep

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on NFU

Photographic print taken from a glass plate negative in the collection of haymaking showing a pair of horses and tow farm workers loading a wagon

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

Buzzard in flight

Andrew Groves on Buzzards

Christine Broom and young farmers

Judith Walker on Young Farmers

Sam Biles - Newport Market 1960s

Alan Emery on Newport Market

Glass negative of haymaking and a haywain at Shanklin Manor (before 1883 rebuild)

David Cooper on Harvest time

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on the NFU

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Christine Broom on Baler

A lamb suckling a cow

Sam Biles on Cows

- Combine Harvester 1983

Donald Emery on Harvest

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Alan Emery on Haymaking

Sepia photograph showing George Guy (aged 16) standing beside Mr Morris's milk float, Newport

Dianne and Paul Whitelock and Sandra Piggot on Newport Creameries

Black and white photograph showing a farm worker walking carrying his scythe and other tools

Colin Capon on Hares

Alan Emery - Tractors

Donald Emery on Tractors

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Geoff and gang (local men) on the trailer haymaking time.

Christine Broom on Hay

Arthur Mew's Father with milk churn at Mill Bank Farm

John Attrill on Milk

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