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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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Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Alan Emery on Haymaking

Sepia photograph showing milk float and horse belonging to Mr Morris of The Mall, Newport. Small girl in sunbonnet and boots standing by float.

David Cooper on Newport Creameries

A sepia photograph showing good detail of a threshing machine, crew and steam engine

David Cooper on Hay

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Donald Emery on Hay

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

David Cooper on Harvest time

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Judith Walker on Farmstead

Alan Emery - Tractors

Alan Emery on Tractors

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

John Attrill on NFU

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

Trevor Strickland and Colin Capon on Milk

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Sam Biles on Transport

Sam Biles - Newport Market 1960s

Alan Emery on Newport Market

Geoff Phillips and parents

Roy Collins on Milk

Black and white photograph of a market with livestock in progress in St James Square, Newport

Ruth Stone on Newport Market

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

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Wartime

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