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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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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

Beryl in Land Army

Geoff Phillips on War

Sunny Bay from the side

Ruth Stone on Butter

Owl on branch

David Cooper on Wildlife

Black and white photograph of a horse-drawn grass cutter by Golf links Road, Sandown taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

David Cooper on Hedgerows

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Judith Walker on Hay

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

Barbara Phillips on Hay

Black and white photograph of a farmer driving a flock of sheep down a road near Apse Heath

Roy Collins on Sheep

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

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

Arthur Mew on milk for the gentry of Shanklin

Christine Broom = Daffodil & Bracelet – cows shown at County Show

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Alan Emery on Gilten Market

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on The County Show

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

Dianne Whitelock and Sandra Piggot on Newport Market

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

John Attrill on Milk

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