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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 with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Geoff Phillips on Tractors

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Ruth Stone on Harvest

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Mike Henderson on Harvest

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

Andrew Groves on Hares

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Trevor Strickland on Transport

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

Christine Broom on Newport Market

Glass negative of horses pulling wagons, loaded with willow

Barbara Phillips on Hedgerows

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

John Attrill on Balers

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Donald Emery on Harvest

Glass negative of men moving felled trunks in hoist with horses standing ready to hand

Geoff Phillips on Elms

Ruth Stone - Sunny Bay 1930

Ruth Stone on Milk – ‘really lovely, creamy cream’

Black and white photograph of a market with livestock in progress in St James Square, Newport

Ruth Stone on Newport Market

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

David Cooper on Harvest time

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Christine Broom on Wildlife

Glass negative of two horse ploughs

Donald Emery on War

Land Army Uniform at Roslin Farm

Beryl Flux on joining the Forestry during the War

Sunny Bay from the side

Ruth Stone on Butter

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

John Attrill on Milk

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