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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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Agricultural Show 1960s Bert Hobbs

John Attrill on NFU

Bullocks in Newport

David Cooper on Bulls

Betty Squibb tying up tomatoes - Knighton

Colin Capon on Hares

Glass negative of horses pulling wagons, loaded with willow

Barbara Phillips on Hedgerows

David Cooper's Great Grandfather Cooper wearing a yoke carrying milk bucket

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Trevor Strickland on Tractor

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

Arthur Mew on milk for the gentry of Shanklin

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

Sandra Piggot on Baler

- Combine Harvester 1983

Dianne Whitelock on Elevators

Christine Broom and young farmers

Judith Walker on Young Farmers

Millbank Farm, Sandford

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

- Combine Harvester 1983

Geoff Phillips on Combines

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

John Attrill on Milk

Glass negative of two horse ploughs

Donald Emery on War

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Geoff Phillips on Milk

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