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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

Colin Capon on Milk

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Andrew Groves on Hedgerows

International Tractor, C

Mike Henderson on Tractors

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

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

Christine Broom on Milk Quotas

Sam Biles - Newport Market 1960s

John Attrill on Newport Market

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

Christine Broom and young farmers

Christine Broom on Young Farmers’ events

A sepia photograph showing good detail of a threshing machine, crew and steam engine

David Cooper on Hay

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

Ruth Stone on Newport Market

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Christine Broom on Slaughterhouse

Tinted photograph shows a blacksmith shoeing a horse, with tools and a bicycle visible in the background

Dianne Whitelock on Horses

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart

Judith Walker on Hay

A pencil drawing of the farm house and land at Watchingwell 1833 by H. R. Pitman

Mike Henderson on Farmstead

Pigs at the County Show

Sam Biles on Pigs

Beryl and cows on Chale Green

Peggy Jolliffe on Cows

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

Arthur Mew on milk for the gentry of Shanklin

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Donald Emery on Harvest

Hurdles and sheep

John Attrill on Sheep

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