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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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A pencil drawing of the farm house and land at Watchingwell 1833 by H. R. Pitman

Mike Henderson on Farmstead

Millbank Farm, Sandford

Arthur Mew on Top officers (Churchill?) and the tank during the War

Agricultural Show 1960s Bert Hobbs

John Attrill on Sheep

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on buying pigs at Newport Market

Christine Broom = Daffodil & Bracelet – cows shown at County Show

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Sam Biles on Transport

Grandad Lock haymaking

John Attrill on Elevators

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Christine Broom on Wildlife

Agricultural Show 1960s Bert Hobbs

John Attrill on NFU

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

Sandra Piggot on Milk

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Christine Broom on Newport Market

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

David Cooper on Cows

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Christine Broom on Baler

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Black and white photograph of a farmer driving a flock of sheep down a road near Apse Heath

Donald Emery on Sheep

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

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