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

Roy Collins on Tractors

Geoff Phillips - calf in kitchen

Sandra Piggot on Cows

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

Paul Whitelock on Newport Market

A pencil drawing of the farm house and land at Watchingwell 1833 by H. R. Pitman

Mike Henderson on Farmstead

Milk lorry and parlour milking in farmyard

Alan Emery on a bumper Harvest

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Colin Capon on Harvest

Beryl with other Foresters, Westridge Down

Beryl Flux on being shot at from German planes

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Andrew Groves on Transport

Geoff Phillips and parents

David Cooper on Milk

International Tractor, C

John Attrill on Tractors

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

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

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

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Tinted photograph shows a blacksmith shoeing a horse, with tools and a bicycle visible in the background

Roy Collins on Horses

A lamb suckling a cow

Ruth Stone on milking time

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