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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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Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

John Attrill on Balers

Glass negative of men moving felled trunks in hoist with horses standing ready to hand

Geoff Phillips on Elms

A lamb suckling a cow

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Beryl Flux on Newport Market

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

David Cooper on Newport Market

Agricultural Show 1960s Bert Hobbs

John Attrill on Sheep

The Knackers yard

Sam Biles on Knackers

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

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Paul Whitelock on Hay

Beryl and cows on Chale Green

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Sam Biles on Slaughterhouse

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

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

Ruby Cooper on Butter

Christine Broom and young farmers

Judith Walker on Young Farmers

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on buying pigs at Newport Market

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