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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’re hundreds of them for you to enjoy. Just click /touch to hear them.

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Geoff Phillips on Haymaking

Pigs at the County Show

John Attrill on Pigs

Beryl with other Foresters, Westridge Down

Beryl Flux on being shot at from German planes

Sale of Cow

Colin Capon on Farmstead

- Combine Harvester 1983

Alan Emery on Combine

Sepia photograph showing milk float and horse belonging to Mr Morris of The Mall, Newport. Small girl in sunbonnet and boots standing by float.

Geoff Phillips on Milk Quotas

Black and white photograph of a market with livestock in progress in St James Square, Newport

Ruth Stone on Newport Market

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Alan Emery on Haymaking

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Sam Biles on Slaughterhouse

Christine Broom and young farmers

Sandra Piggot on Young Farmers

Agricultural Show 1960s Bert Hobbs

John Attrill on NFU

Geoff Phillips and parents

Colin Capon on Milk

Millbank Farm, Sandford

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

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

Andrew Groves - Strawberry picking, Newchurch

Roy Collins on Manpower

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

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