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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

Donald Emery on Harvest

Land Army Uniform at Roslin Farm

Beryl Flux on joining the Forestry during the War

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Christine Broom on Wildlife

- Combine Harvester 1983

Alan Emery on Combine

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

Arthur Mew on milk for the gentry of Shanklin

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

John Attrill on Milk

- Combine Harvester 1983

Geoff Phillips on Combines

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

Donald Emery on Hedgerows

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

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Beryl Flux on Newport Market

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Trevor Strickland on Tractor

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

John Attrill on Balers

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Ruth Stone on Harvest

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

NFU dinner

John Attrill on NFU

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

Ruby Cooper on Butter

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