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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 and parents

David Cooper on Milk

A lamb suckling a cow

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Pigs at the County Show

Sam Biles on Pigs

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

David Cooper on Balers

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

Roy Collins on Sheep

Geoff Phillips and parents

Sandra Piggot on Milk

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

John Attrill on Slaughterhouse

Buzzard in flight

Colin Capon on Buzzards

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

Sandra Piggot on Baler

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Wartime

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

Andrew Groves on selling produce at Market

Beryl with other Land Army women

Beryl Flux on her time with the Forestry

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

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Geoff and gang (local men) on the trailer haymaking time.

Christine Broom on Hay

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Barbara Phillips on Wildlife

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

Barbara Phillips on Hay

A lamb suckling a cow

John Attrill on Milk

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Dianne Whitelock on Tractors

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Geoff Phillips on Haymaking

Beryl and cows on Chale Green

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

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