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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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H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Christine Broom on Slaughterhouse

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Sam Biles on Transport

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Alan Emery on Wartime

Bullocks in Newport

David Cooper on Bulls

A sepia photograph which shows an old man feeding hens and geese with some farm buildings in the background

Dianne Whitelock on Eggs

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Arthur Mew on the Slaughterhouse

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

A pencil drawing of the farm house and land at Watchingwell 1833 by H. R. Pitman

Mike Henderson on Farmstead

Sepia photograph showing a haymaking scene, with loaded wagon, two horses, three men, three girls and their implements

Christine Broom on Young Farmers

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Bulls

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

John Attrill on NFU

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Sam Biles on Slaughterhouse

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

Black and white photograph of two men sat on an early tractor with farming equipment behind in a field

Donald Emery on Tractors

Glass negative of men using horse drawn plough

Mike Henderson on Soils

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