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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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A lamb suckling a cow

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Knackers cart and horse

Sam Biles on Transport

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Andrew Groves on Transport

Rabbiting at Mottistone

Andrew Groves on Wildlife

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Donald Emery on Hay

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

Dianne Whitelock on Horses

Glass negative of men using horse drawn plough

Mike Henderson on Soils

Beryl in Land Army

Geoff Phillips on War

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Christine Broom on Milk

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Andrew Groves on Wildlife

Millbank Farm, Sandford

Arthur Mew on Top officers (Churchill?) and the tank during the War

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

Sandra Piggot on Baler

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Christine Broom on Newport Market

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Roy Collins on Hay

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

Sandra Piggot on Milk

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

David Cooper on Harvest time

Geoff Phillips and parents

Colin Capon on Milk

Alan Emery - Tractors

David Cooper on Tractors

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

Ruth Stone on Newport Market

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