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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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Beryl and cows on Chale Green

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

Beryl in Land Army

Geoff Phillips on War

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

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas and Sheep

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

David Cooper on Harvest time

Judith Walker

Judith Walker on Butter

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Arthur Mew on the Slaughterhouse

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on NFU

A milkmaid's yoke

David Cooper on Milk

The Knackers yard

Sam Biles on Knackers

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

Alan Emery - Tractors

David Cooper on Tractors

Christine Broom and young farmers

Sandra Piggot on Young Farmers

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

David Cooper on Harvest time

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Dianne Whitelock on Milk

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