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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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John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

Andrew Groves on Hares

Black and white photograph of sheep being sold at Newport Cattle Market at the Spring Sale - Shows farmers and sellers, including David Dockrill

Christine Broom on Newport Market

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas and Sheep

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Donald Emery on Hay

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Judith Walker on Farmstead

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Andrew Groves on Slaughterhouse

Betty Squibb tying up tomatoes - Knighton

Colin Capon on Hares

A lamb suckling a cow

Ruth Stone on milking time

Sam Biles - Newport Market 1960s

Alan Emery on Milk

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Paul Whitelock on Balers

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Christine Broom on Newport Market

Geoff Phillips and parents

Roy Collins 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

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

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

A milkmaid's yoke

David Cooper on Milk

Alan Emery - Tractors

Paul Whitelock on Tractors

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