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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

David Cooper on Harvest time

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Geoff Phillips on Haymaking

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

Glass negative of two horse ploughs

Trevor Strickland on War

International Tractor, C

John Attrill on Tractors

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Dianne Whitelock on Milk

Geoff Phillips and parents

Roy Collins on Milk

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Christine Broom on Slaughterhouse

Alan Emery - Tractors

Donald Emery on Tractors

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

Barbara Phillips on Hay

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Judith Walker on Farmstead

Christine Broom and young farmers

Christine Broom on Young Farmers’ events

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Wartime

Hurdles and sheep

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas and Sheep

Sale of Cow

Colin Capon on Farmstead

Pigs at the County Show

John Attrill on Pigs

NFU dinner

John Attrill on NFU

A lamb suckling a cow

Alan Emery on Sheep

Geoff Phillips and parents

Sandra Piggot on Milk

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