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

Geoff Phillips on Milk Quotas

Beryl and cows on Chale Green

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

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

Arthur Mew on milk for the gentry of Shanklin

Pigs at the County Show

Sam Biles on Pigs

Geoff Phillips and parents

Colin Capon on Milk

Glass negative of horses pulling wagons, loaded with willow

Barbara Phillips on Hedgerows

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

Sandra Piggot on Baler

Black and white photograph showing a farm worker walking carrying his scythe and other tools

Colin Capon on Hares

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Christine Broom on Baler

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas and Sheep

Betty Squibb tying up tomatoes - Knighton

Colin Capon on Hares

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

Black and white photograph showing a farm worker walking carrying his scythe and other tools

Donald Emery on Hedgerows

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

David Cooper on Cows

Picking spuds at Roslin Farm

Beryl Flux on Harvest time

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Geoff Phillips on Tractors

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