Photos

We’ve got a wide selection of photos, some from the private collections of the families that were interviewed, others that belong to collections based on the Isle of Wight. Feel free to click around this scrapbook …

Bullocks in Newport

Grandfather and Aunt in 1932 at the Gilten Market

Hay rick at Park Green Farm

H Biles Truck - Reg VDL966, David Biles in front

New Baler

Aux WW2 H Biles is third from back fourth right

Black and white photograph of a market with livestock in progress in St James Square, Newport

Aerial view of Park Green Farm in the 1940s

A milkmaid's yoke

Farming tools

Farming tools

Farming tools

Farming tools

Farming tools

Farming tools

Farming tools

Rick with thatch in the distance, cows and farmer in field

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

Grandad Lock haymaking

A sepia photograph which shows an old man feeding hens and geese with some farm buildings in the background

Tinted photograph shows a blacksmith shoeing a horse, with tools and a bicycle visible in the background

Sepia photograph showing a haymaking scene, with loaded wagon, two horses, three men, three girls and their implements

Black and white photograph of a farmer driving a flock of sheep down a road near Apse Heath

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

Photographic print taken from a glass plate negative in the collection of men working a threshing machine driven by a steam engine

Black and white photograph of a shepherd with lamb and crook with a sheep hurdle behind

Black and white photograph showing a farmer with full beard wearing a straw hat and holding a scythe

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

Black and white photograph which shows St James' Square, Newport cattle market before Victoria memorial

An engraving of the Town Hall at Newport with market activities taking place 1816

A pencil drawing of the farm house and land at Watchingwell 1833 by H. R. Pitman

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Black and white photograph of a group of farm workers and longshoremen outside the Chine Inn, Shanklin 1860

Glass negative of family and haystack

Glass lantern slide of market at St. James Square, Newport

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Glass negative of shepherd George Tullege (1793-1877)

Glass Negative of Troops assembling

Glass negative of men moving felled trunks in hoist with horses standing ready to hand

Glass negative of men working with two horses harnessed to heavy log cart

Glass negative of a man with 2 horses harnessed to heavy log cart

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Glass negative of men using horse drawn plough

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Glass negative of a woman feeding chickens and ducks in a farm yard with a cow

Glass negative of game, sheep and a man with a stock of fence panels

Glass negative of haymaking with horse and wagon

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Glass negative of horse transport and a crowd assembled in St. James Square, Newport, for market day

Glass negative of two horse drawn ploughs in a field

Glass negative of a pair of horses drawing a plough

Glass negative of horses pulling wagons, loaded with willow

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

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

Glass negative of Upper Hyde Farm, Shanklin with six figures at gate

Glass negative of two women feeding free range hens

Glass negative of two horse ploughs

Black and white photo of a man and boy with a milk churn in a cart being pulled by a pony. The cart is marked 'Pan Manor Dairy' over the wheel and Morris, Pan Manor Farm at the front

Black and white photograph of William Walter Roach (Agricultural Labourer, Carter) with women visible down the road

Black and white photograph of sheep being sold at Newport Cattle Market at the Spring Sale - Shows farmers and sellers, including David Dockrill

Black and white photograph of two men sat on an early tractor with farming equipment behind in a field

Black and white photograph of a farmer hoeing with horses taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

Black and white photograph of a farmer hoeing with horses taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

Black and white photograph of a horse-drawn grass cutter by Golf links Road, Sandown taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

black and white photograph of a farmer rolling a field with a horse drawn roller. Photograph taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel in 1946.

black and white photograph in mount, showing a group of people at the opening of Newtown Nature Reserve

Black and white photograph showing John Morris, blacksmith of Blackwater, with his dog

Sepia postcard showing men, horses and plough outside blacksmith's shop Brighstone, IW

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

Sepia photograph showing milk float and horse belonging to Mr Morris of The Mall, Newport. Small girl in sunbonnet and boots standing by float.

Ruth Stone nee Comer on logs at the sawmill, Forest Road, Newport

Ruth Stone - The old sawmill, Forest side

Sunny Bay from the side

Ruth Stone - Sunny Bay 1930

Geoff Phillips - Champion Ploughman - tractor

Geoff Phillips - calf in kitchen

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Family photograph at Holgate Farm

David Cooper's Great Grandfather Cooper wearing a yoke carrying milk bucket

Bert Cooper (left) Charles Cooper (David Cooper's Grandad) pier in background, sitting on a launching rig

Holgate farm, Nettlestone

Bert Cooper (David's dad) with horse

David Cooper - Bert and dog

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Betty Squibb tying up tomatoes - Knighton

Atrills Lane, Betty Squibb's grandparents house

Betty Squibb tying tomatoes at Knighton

Alan Emery - Tractors

Yaverland Manor House

Milk lorry and parlour milking in farmyard

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Beryl with other Land Army women

Roslin Farmhouse 1940

Picking spuds at Roslin Farm

Beryl Flux's Mum and Aunt Ciss

Martin, Carol, Dad, Tony, Beryl, Mum at Victoria Road

Southford Farm

Beryl Flux's mother and uncle

Beryl Flux and Bun before marrying

Land Army Uniform at Roslin Farm

International Tractor, C

Beryl with other Foresters, Westridge Down

Sale of Cow

Beryl in Land Army

Beryl and cows on Chale Green

Andrew Groves - Tomatoes in glasshouse

Andrew Groves - Strawberry picking, Newchurch

Andrew Groves - Robin Richards milk and eggs

Andrew Groves - Robin Richards horse and cart

Andrew Groves - Langbridge Farm

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves - Langbridge Farm 1959

Andrew Groves - Kern Farm

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Andrew Groves - American Beauty flowers

Arthur Mew catalogue 1973

Arthur Mew catalogue 1973

Arthur Mew catalogue 1973

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1920

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1920

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1920

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1908

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1908

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1908

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew Henry J. Way and Son Catalogue 1903

Arthur Mew - Auction at Moor Farm, Godshill 1963

Mrs Arthur Mew with - Full English Breakfast for B&B

Arthur Mew getting married at Shanklin Methodist Church

Arthur Mew

Arthur Mew

Cliff Farm, Shanklin (Spence Willard ad)

Cliff Farm, Shanklin

Arthur Mew

Arthur Mew's garden

Arthur Mew plucking a turkey at Apse Manor Farm

Millbank Farm, Sandford

Millbank Farm, Sandford

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

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

Apse Manor Farm

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Pigs at the County Show

NFU dinner

A lamb suckling a cow

The Knackers yard

The IOW Hunt at Gatcombe House

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Donald Biles (driver)

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Colin Capon

Pigs at the County Show

NFU dinner

Knackers cart and horse

Peggy Jolliffe with Sunbeam at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe's Ploughing Match Third Prize Certificate

Peggy Jolliffe's Ploughing Match First Prize Certificate

Paper clipping from County Show

H Flux with horse and cart

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

The lane before Dutch Elm Disease

The lane after Dutch Elm Disease

Owl on branch

Buzzard in flight

Buzzard on post

Rabbiting at Mottistone

A black and white photograph of a steam engine driving a threshing machine beside straw stack

A sepia photograph showing good detail of a threshing machine, crew and steam engine

Glass negative of elm trees

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

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