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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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black and white photograph of a farmer rolling a field with a horse drawn roller. Photograph taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel in 1946.

John Attrill on Horses

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

John Attrill on Milk

Arthur Mew Sale Catalogue 1908

Arthur Mew on Young Farmers

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Colin Capon on Harvest

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

Andrew Groves on Hares

A lamb suckling a cow

Ruth Stone on milking time

The Knackers yard

Sam Biles on Knackers

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Andrew Groves on Transport

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

Trevor Strickland and Colin Capon on Milk

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Donald Emery on Hay

Geoff Phillips and parents

David Cooper on Milk

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

John Attrill on Balers

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Judith Walker on Hay

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

Sandra Piggot on Milk

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Geoff Phillips - calf in kitchen

Sandra Piggot on Cows

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