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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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Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Judith Walker on Cows

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Sam Biles on Gilten Market

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Paul Whitelock on Balers

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

Trevor Strickland and Colin Capon on Milk

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

David Cooper on Cows

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

Roy Collins on Tractors

Geoff and gang (local men) on the trailer haymaking time.

Christine Broom on Hay

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

Mike Henderson on Farmstead

Geoff Phillips and parents

Sandra Piggot on Milk

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Alan Emery on Gilten Market

Glass negative of a woman feeding chickens and ducks in a farm yard with a cow

Dianne Whitelock on Farmstead

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

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Sam Biles - Newport Market 1960s

John Attrill on Newport Market

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Knackers cart and horse

Sam Biles on Knackers

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Andrew Groves on Transport

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