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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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Aux WW2 H Biles is third from back fourth right

Sam Biles on War

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

Andrew Groves on selling produce at Market

International Tractor, C

Mike Henderson on Tractors

Sepia photograph showing George Guy (aged 16) standing beside Mr Morris's milk float, Newport

Dianne and Paul Whitelock and Sandra Piggot on Newport Creameries

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

Colin Capon on Milk

Alan Emery - Tractors

Paul Whitelock on Tractors

Beryl and cows on Chale Green

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

Grandad Lock haymaking

John Attrill on Elevators

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

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

John Attrill on Milk

Black and white photograph of a farmer hoeing with horses taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

Ruth Stone on Horses

Glass negative of two horse ploughs

Donald Emery on War

Pigs at the County Show

John Attrill on Pigs

Rabbiting at Mottistone

Andrew Groves on Wildlife

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

David Cooper on Cows

Hurdles and sheep

John Attrill on Sheep

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