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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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Andrew Groves - Robin Richards horse and cart

Dianne Whitelock on Butter

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 photograph of a farmer rolling a field with a horse drawn roller. Photograph taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel in 1946.

John Attrill on Horses

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

John Attrill on Balers

Sale of Cow

Colin Capon on Farmstead

Photographic print taken from a glass plate negative in the collection of men working a threshing machine driven by a steam engine

David Cooper on Thrashing

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on Mrs Muff

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Geoff Phillips on Haymaking

A lamb suckling a cow

Sam Biles on Cows

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Trevor Strickland on Tractor

Grandad Lock haymaking

John Attrill on Elevators

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

David Cooper on Cows

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

Paul Whitelock on Milk

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

Arthur Mew on milk for the gentry of Shanklin

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on buying pigs at Newport Market

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Christine Broom on Milk

Glass negative of horses pulling wagons, loaded with willow

Barbara Phillips on Hedgerows

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Alan Emery on Wartime

Glass negative of haymaking and a haywain at Shanklin Manor (before 1883 rebuild)

Barbara Phillips on Hay

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