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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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Geoff Phillips and parents

Roy Collins on Milk

Photographic print taken from a glass plate negative in the collection of haymaking showing a pair of horses and tow farm workers loading a wagon

David Cooper on Harvest

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

Sandra Piggot on Baler

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

Grandad Lock haymaking

John Attrill on Elevators

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Roy Collins on Hay

- Combine Harvester 1983

Donald Emery on Harvest

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Alan Emery on Haymaking

Pigs at the County Show

Sam Biles on Pigs

Geoff Phillips and parents

David Cooper on Milk

Cows on steamer Lord Elgin

Geoff Phillips on Milk

Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

A lamb suckling a cow

John Attrill on Milk

Milk lorry and parlour milking in farmyard

Alan Emery on a bumper Harvest

Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

John Attrill on Balers

Ruth Stone - Sunny Bay 1930

Ruth Stone on Milk – ‘really lovely, creamy cream’

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

David Cooper on Cows

John Attrill - Aerial view of Dean Farm

John Attrill on NFU

Christine Broom and young farmers

Christine Broom on Young Farmers’ events

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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