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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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Glass negative of horses pulling wagons, loaded with willow

Barbara Phillips on Hedgerows

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Donald Emery on Hay

A lamb suckling a cow

Alan Emery on Sheep

Photographic print taken from a glass plate negative in the collection of haymaking showing a pair of horses and tow farm workers loading a wagon

David Cooper on Harvest

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Colin Capon on Harvest

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

Roy Collins on Horses

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Andrew Groves on haymaking

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Andrew Groves on Wildlife

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Paul Whitelock on Balers

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

Andrew Groves on Hares

Alan Emery - Tractors

Alan Emery on Tractors

Black and white photograph of a group of farm workers and longshoremen outside the Chine Inn, Shanklin 1860

Paul Whitelock on Pubs

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Alan Emery on Haymaking

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Roy Collins on Hay

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Judith Walker on Hay

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

Sandra Piggot on Baler

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