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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 - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Andrew Groves on haymaking

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Judith Walker on Cows

Sepia photograph showing milk float and horse belonging to Mr Morris of The Mall, Newport. Small girl in sunbonnet and boots standing by float.

Dianne Whitelock on Milk

A lamb suckling a cow

Alan Emery on Sheep

Grandad Lock haymaking

Sandra Piggot on Elevators

Alan Emery - Tractors

Alan Emery on Harvesting with a combine

A pencil drawing of the farm house and land at Watchingwell 1833 by H. R. Pitman

Mike Henderson on Farmstead

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

Andrew Groves - Strawberry picking, Newchurch

Roy Collins on Manpower

Pigs at the County Show

John Attrill on Pigs

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Geoff Phillips on Haymaking

Millbank Farm, Sandford

Arthur Mew on Top officers (Churchill?) and the tank during the War

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Arthur Mew on the Slaughterhouse

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on Mrs Muff

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Judith Walker on Hay

Sepia photograph showing milk float and horse belonging to Mr Morris of The Mall, Newport. Small girl in sunbonnet and boots standing by float.

David Cooper on Newport Creameries

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Dianne Whitelock on Tractors

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Christine Broom and young farmers

Sandra Piggot on Young Farmers

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Beryl Flux on Newport Market

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