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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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Pigs at the County Show

Sam Biles on Pigs

Agricultural Show 1960s Bert Hobbs

Christine Broom on The County Show

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on buying pigs at Newport Market

Glass negative of men using horse drawn plough

Mike Henderson on Soils

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Geoff Phillips on Tractors

Sale of Cow

Colin Capon on Farmstead

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

John Attrill on Slaughterhouse

Christine Broom and young farmers

Judith Walker on Young Farmers

- Combine Harvester 1983

John Attrill on Combine

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on sales at Newport Market

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Judith Walker on Farmstead

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

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

David Cooper on Harvest time

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.

John Attrill on Horses

Agricultural Show 1960s Bert Hobbs

John Attrill on Sheep

Judith Walker

Judith Walker on Butter

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Mike Henderson on Harvest

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Alan Emery on Haymaking

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

Geoff Phillips on Milk Quotas

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Bulls

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