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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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Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1920

Arthur Mew on the 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

David Cooper on Harvest

NFU dinner

John Attrill on NFU

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Judith Walker on Farmstead

Judith Walker

Judith Walker on Butter

Rabbiting at Mottistone

Andrew Groves on Wildlife

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1908

Arthur Mew on Young Farmers

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

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Sam Biles on Transport

Geoff Phillips and parents

Colin Capon on Milk

Pigs at the County Show

Ruth Stone on Pigs

A lamb suckling a cow

Alan Emery on Sheep

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

Judith Walker on Milk

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

Paul Whitelock on Newport Market

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

Roy Collins on Horses

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Geoff Phillips on Milk

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Roy Collins on Hay

Geoff Phillips - calf in kitchen

Sandra Piggot on Cows

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

Andrew Groves on selling produce at Market

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