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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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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

Christine Broom and young farmers

Christine Broom on Young Farmers’ events

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

David Cooper on Hay

Buzzard in flight

Colin Capon on Buzzards

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

Alan Emery - Tractors

Alan Emery on Tractors

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Donald Emery on Harvest

Christine Broom and young farmers

Judith Walker on Young Farmers

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

Christine Broom on Young Farmers

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Barbara Phillips on Wildlife

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

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

Ruby Cooper on Butter

Hurdles and sheep

John Attrill on Sheep

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

John Attrill on Balers

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

John Attrill on Sheep

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Dianne Whitelock on Milk

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

Colin Capon on Milk

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Geoff Phillips on Milk

Andrew Groves - Robin Richards milk and eggs

Andrew Groves on Honeymooners during the War

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Wartime

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