Skip to content
  • Home
  • Profiles
  • Themes
  • Listen
  • Photos
  • Home
  • Profiles
  • Themes
  • Listen
  • Photos

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.

Loading…
H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Sam Biles on Slaughterhouse

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Geoff Phillips on Milk

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

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on sales at Newport Market

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Barbara Phillips on Cows

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Wartime

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Christine Broom on Baler

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

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

Ruby Cooper on Butter

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Andrew Groves on haymaking

Snow on the Isle of Wight

Christine Broom on Winter of ’62-’63

Tinted photograph shows a blacksmith shoeing a horse, with tools and a bicycle visible in the background

Roy Collins on Horses

Glass lantern slide of market at St. James Square, Newport

Colin Capon on Newport Market

Beryl in Land Army

Geoff Phillips on War

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

International Tractor, C

Mike Henderson on Tractors

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Mike Henderson on Harvest

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

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Black and white photograph of a farmer hoeing with horses taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

Ruth Stone on Horses

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

Donald Emery on Sheep

1 2 … 10 Next »

Down to the Coast logo
Carisbroke Castle Museum Logo
HLF Logo
Built by Meeja logo
  • About
  • Contact
  • Take down policy
  • Built on the Isle of Wight
  • About
  • Contact
  • Take down policy
  • Built on the Isle of Wight