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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 lantern slide of market at St. James Square, Newport

Colin Capon on Newport Market

Arthur Mew's Father with milk churn at Mill Bank Farm

Trevor Strickland and Colin Capon on Milk

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on The County Show

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

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

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

Millbank Farm, Sandford

Arthur Mew on Top officers (Churchill?) and the tank during the War

Bullocks in Newport

David Cooper on Bulls

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on NFU

Glass negative of horses pulling wagons, loaded with willow

Barbara Phillips on Hedgerows

Beryl with other Foresters, Westridge Down

Beryl Flux on being shot at from German planes

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

David Cooper on Harvest time

International Tractor, C

Mike Henderson on Tractors

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Mike Henderson on Harvest

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

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

David Cooper on Harvest time

Arthur Mew's Father with milk churn at Mill Bank Farm

John Attrill on Milk

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