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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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Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Judith Walker on Hay

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

H Flux with horse and cart

Peggy Jolliffe on Newport Creameries

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Christine Broom on Newport Market

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

Glass negative of a woman feeding chickens and ducks in a farm yard with a cow

Dianne Whitelock on Farmstead

Geoff Phillips - calf in kitchen

Sandra Piggot on Cows

Picking spuds at Roslin Farm

Beryl Flux on Harvest time

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Christine Broom on Milk

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Sam Biles on Gilten Market

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Roy Collins on Hay

A lamb suckling a cow

Ruth Stone on milking time

Black and white photograph of sheep being sold at Newport Cattle Market at the Spring Sale - Shows farmers and sellers, including David Dockrill

Christine Broom on Newport Market

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

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Dianne Whitelock on Tractors

Knackers cart and horse

Sam Biles on Transport

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