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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 George Guy (aged 16) standing beside Mr Morris's milk float, Newport

Dianne and Paul Whitelock and Sandra Piggot on Newport Creameries

Black and white photograph of two men sat on an early tractor with farming equipment behind in a field

Donald Emery on Tractors

Andrew Groves - Robin Richards horse and cart

Andrew Groves on Butter

Buzzard in flight

Andrew Groves on Buzzards

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Donald Emery on Harvest

Aux WW2 H Biles is third from back fourth right

Sam Biles on War

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on buying pigs at Newport Market

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

Colin Capon on Hares

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Sam Biles on Slaughterhouse

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Sam Biles on Gilten Market

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Judith Walker on Farmstead

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Paul Whitelock on Hay

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

Geoff Phillips and parents

David Cooper on Milk

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Andrew Groves on Slaughterhouse

Sunny Bay from the side

Ruth Stone on Butter

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