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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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Sunny Bay from the side

Ruth Stone on Butter

International Tractor, C

Mike Henderson on Tractors

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Christine Broom on Newport Market

Andrew Groves - Carting sheaths in W Meath

Colin Capon on Harvest

Knackers cart and horse

Sam Biles on Knackers

Glass negative of haymaking and a haywain at Shanklin Manor (before 1883 rebuild)

Barbara Phillips on Hay

Geoff Phillips and parents

Roy Collins on Milk

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Trevor Strickland on Slaughterhouse

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

A lamb suckling a cow

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

Bullocks in Newport

David Cooper on Bulls

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

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Geoff Phillips on Tractors

Agricultural Show 1960s Bert Hobbs

John Attrill on NFU

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

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas

Buzzard in flight

John Attrill on Wildlife

International Tractor, C

John Attrill on Tractors

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Paul Whitelock on Hay

Geoff Phillips with Fordson Major Diesel tractor

Dianne Whitelock on Tractors

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on NFU

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