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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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- Combine Harvester 1983

John Attrill on Harvest

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Judith Walker on Cows

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

A lamb suckling a cow

Ruth Stone on milking time

Aux WW2 H Biles is third from back fourth right

Sam Biles on War

Buzzard in flight

Andrew Groves on Buzzards

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Donald Emery on Harvest

Christine Broom and young farmers

Christine Broom on Young Farmers’ events

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

Judith Walker on Milk

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Dianne Whitelock on Milk

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Judith Walker on Hay

Geoff Phillips and parents

David Cooper on Milk

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

John Attrill on NFU

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Trevor Strickland on Slaughterhouse

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on sales at Newport Market

Photographic print taken from a glass plate negative in the collection of haymaking showing a pair of horses and tow farm workers loading a wagon

David Cooper on Harvest

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