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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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H Flux with horse and cart

Peggy Jolliffe on Newport Creameries

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Andrew Groves on Slaughterhouse

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Christine Broom on Slaughterhouse

Geoff and Barbara Phillips portrait by Julian Winslow

Geoff and Barbara Phillips on Winter ’62-63

Alan Emery - Mother and calf

Alan Emery on Wartime

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Barbara Phillips on Wildlife

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

Andrew Groves on sales at Newport Market

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

David Cooper on Balers

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

Dianne Whitelock and Sandra Piggot 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

Colin Capon on Milk

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Judith Walker on Cows

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

John Attrill on Milk

Geoff Phillips and parents

David Cooper on Milk

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport

Andrew Groves on buying pigs at Newport Market

Black and white photograph of a farmer hoeing with horses taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

Ruth Stone on Horses

International Tractor, C

Mike Henderson on Tractors

NFU dinner

Christine Broom on the NFU

Geoff Phillips - Haymaking

Paul Whitelock on Hay

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