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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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Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Geoff Phillips on Milk

NFU dinner

John Attrill on NFU

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

Roy Collins on Horses

Glass negative of men using horse drawn plough

Mike Henderson on Soils

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

David Cooper on Cows

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Wartime

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Geoff Phillips on Slaughterhouse

A lamb suckling a cow

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

- Combine Harvester 1983

John Attrill on Combine

- Combine Harvester 1983

John Attrill on Harvest

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

John Attrill on Slaughterhouse

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

Sandra Piggot on Milk

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

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

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

David Cooper on Newport Market

Geoff Phillips and parents

David Cooper on Milk

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

Colin Capon on Hares

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Andrew Groves on Slaughterhouse

Black and white photograph of a farmer driving a flock of sheep down a road near Apse Heath

Roy Collins on Sheep

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