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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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The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Mike Henderson on Harvest

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on NFU

Knackers cart and horse

Sam Biles on Transport

Photographic print taken from a glass plate negative in the collection of men working a threshing machine driven by a steam engine

David Cooper on Thrashing

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Hedgerows

Bullocks in Newport

David Cooper on Bulls

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

Donald Emery on Sheep

Sepia photograph showing George Guy (aged 16) standing beside Mr Morris's milk float, Newport

Dianne and Paul Whitelock and Sandra Piggot on Newport Creameries

A lamb suckling a cow

Alan Emery on Sheep

Owl on branch

Colin Capon on Wildlife

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

John Attrill on Balers

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Dianne Whitelock on Milk

Hurdles and sheep

John Attrill on Sheep

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Geoff Phillips on Haymaking

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Geoff Phillips on Tractors

Christine Broom and young farmers

Sandra Piggot on Young Farmers

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Sam Biles on Slaughterhouse

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Christine Broom on Newport Market

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

David Cooper on Balers

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Trevor Strickland on Transport

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