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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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A sepia photograph showing good detail of a threshing machine, crew and steam engine

David Cooper on Hay

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

Sandra Piggot on Milk

Black and white photograph showing a farm worker walking carrying his scythe and other tools

Colin Capon on Hares

Geoff Phillips - calf in kitchen

Sandra Piggot on Cows

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

John Attrill on NFU

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Donald Emery on Hay

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

Ruth Stone on Newport Market

Geoff Phillips and parents

Roy Collins on Milk

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Dianne Whitelock on Tractors

Land Army Uniform at Roslin Farm

Beryl Flux on joining the Forestry during the War

Owl on branch

Colin Capon on Wildlife

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Sam Biles on Gilten Market

Christine Broom and young farmers

Judith Walker on Young Farmers

Glass negative of a woman feeding chickens and ducks in a farm yard with a cow

Dianne Whitelock on Farmstead

Buzzard on post

Colin Capon on Buzzards

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

Donald Emery on Sheep

Beryl in Land Army

Geoff Phillips on War

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Ruth Stone on Harvest

Alan Emery - Tractors

Donald Emery on Tractors

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