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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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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

Judith Walker on Milk

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on NFU

A lamb suckling a cow

Sam Biles on Cows

Glass negative of haymaking and a haywain at Shanklin Manor (before 1883 rebuild)

David Cooper on Harvest time

Glass negative of men moving felled trunks in hoist with horses standing ready to hand

Geoff Phillips on Elms

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Christine Broom on Slaughterhouse

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

Dianne Whitelock and Sandra Piggot on Newport Market

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Geoff Phillips on Slaughterhouse

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

David Cooper on Balers

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Barbara Phillips on Cows

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

Andrew Groves on Hares

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on The County Show

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Paul Whitelock on Balers

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Andrew Groves on Wildlife

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

Donald Emery on Tractors

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