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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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Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Alan Emery on Wartime

Beryl and cows on Chale Green

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

Beryl with other Foresters, Westridge Down

Beryl Flux on being shot at from German planes

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Christine Broom = Daffodil & Bracelet – cows shown at County Show

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Christine Broom on Milk

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Geoff Phillips on Milk

Picking spuds at Roslin Farm

Beryl Flux on Harvest time

Andrew Groves - Robin Richards milk and eggs

Andrew Groves on Honeymooners during the War

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on The County Show

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Paul Whitelock on Balers

Snow on the Isle of Wight

Christine Broom on Winter of ’62-’63

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on buying pigs at Newport Market

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Andrew Groves on Slaughterhouse

A sepia photograph which shows an old man feeding hens and geese with some farm buildings in the background

Dianne Whitelock on Eggs

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Wartime

Milk lorry and parlour milking in farmyard

Alan Emery on Milk

The Knackers yard

Sam Biles on Knackers

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

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