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

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Tinted photograph shows a blacksmith shoeing a horse, with tools and a bicycle visible in the background

Roy Collins on Horses

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Judith Walker on Farmstead

Christine Broom and young farmers

Judith Walker on Young Farmers

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

John Attrill on NFU

Buzzard on post

Colin Capon on Buzzards

A milkmaid's yoke

David Cooper on Milk

Black and white photograph of a group of farm workers and longshoremen outside the Chine Inn, Shanklin 1860

Paul Whitelock on Pubs

Christine Broom and young farmers

Sandra Piggot on Young Farmers

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

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

Trevor Strickland and Colin Capon on Milk

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Alan Emery on Wartime

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

John Attrill on Milk

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

Colin Capon on Hares

Alan Emery - Tractors

Alan Emery on Harvesting with a combine

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

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

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