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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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Christine Broom and young farmers

Christine Broom on Young Farmers’ events

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1920

Arthur Mew on the NFU

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

Roy Collins on Horses

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Judith Walker on Hay

Hurdles and sheep

John Attrill on Sheep

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Andrew Groves on Wildlife

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

John Attrill 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

Alan Emery - Tractors

Alan Emery on Harvesting with a combine

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Trevor Strickland on Transport

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Barbara Phillips on Cows

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

Trevor Strickland and Colin Capon on Milk

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Christine Broom on Slaughterhouse

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Trevor Strickland on Tractor

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Donald Emery on Harvest

Ruth Stone - Sunny Bay 1930

Ruth Stone on Milk – ‘really lovely, creamy cream’

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

Ruth Stone on Newport Market

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1908

Arthur Mew on Young Farmers

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

David Cooper on Newport Creameries

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