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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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Geoff Phillips - calf in kitchen

Sandra Piggot on Cows

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Christine Broom on Milk

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Christine Broom on Baler

Glass negative of two horse ploughs

Donald Emery on War

A milkmaid's yoke

David Cooper on Milk

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

Alan Emery - Tractors

Donald Emery on Tractors

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1908

Arthur Mew on Young Farmers

David Cooper's Great Grandfather Cooper wearing a yoke carrying milk bucket

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Buzzard in flight

John Attrill on Wildlife

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas and Sheep

A lamb suckling a cow

Ruth Stone on milking time

Black and white photograph showing a farm worker walking carrying his scythe and other tools

Colin Capon on Hares

Beryl in Land Army

Geoff Phillips on War

Beryl with other Land Army women

Beryl Flux on her time with the Forestry

Geoff Phillips and parents

Sandra Piggot on Milk

Hurdles and sheep

John Attrill on Sheep

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

Andrew Groves - Strawberry picking, Newchurch

Roy Collins on Manpower

A lamb suckling a cow

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

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