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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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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

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

Donald Emery on Sheep

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

Barbara Phillips on Hay

Knackers cart and horse

Sam Biles on Knackers

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

Paul Whitelock on Milk

Owl on branch

Colin Capon on Wildlife

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Ruth Stone on Harvest

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

Dianne Whitelock and Sandra Piggot on Newport Market

Andrew Groves - Robin Richards horse and cart

Dianne Whitelock on Butter

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

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

Andrew Groves on selling produce at Market

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Christine Broom on Baler

Glass negative of a farmyard scene

Christine Broom on Milk

Christine Broom and young farmers

Christine Broom on Young Farmers’ events

Sepia photograph showing a haymaking scene, with loaded wagon, two horses, three men, three girls and their implements

Christine Broom on Young Farmers

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Wartime

Geoff Phillips and parents

Colin Capon on Milk

- Combine Harvester 1983

John Attrill on Harvest

International Tractor, C

Donald Emery on Tractors

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