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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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The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Sam Biles on Gilten Market

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Trevor Strickland on Slaughterhouse

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

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

Arthur Mew on milk for the gentry of Shanklin

International Tractor, C

John Attrill on Tractors

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

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

Hurdles and sheep

John Attrill on Sheep

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on sales at Newport Market

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Paul Whitelock on Hay

Black and white photograph of two men sat on an early tractor with farming equipment behind in a field

Donald Emery on Tractors

Beryl and cows on Chale Green

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

A lamb suckling a cow

Alan Emery on Sheep

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

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Hedgerows

Sale of Cow

Colin Capon on Farmstead

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

Trevor Strickland and Colin Capon on Milk

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1908

Arthur Mew on Young Farmers

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

Black and white photo of a man and boy with a milk churn in a cart being pulled by a pony. The cart is marked 'Pan Manor Dairy' over the wheel and Morris, Pan Manor Farm at the front

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

Black and white photograph of a horse-drawn grass cutter by Golf links Road, Sandown taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

David Cooper on Hedgerows

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