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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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Peggy Jolliffe at the County Show

Peggy Jolliffe on Milking

The loader Geoff Phillips made for baling

Paul Whitelock on Balers

A sepia photograph which shows an old man feeding hens and geese with some farm buildings in the background

Dianne Whitelock on Eggs

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

John Attrill on Milk

Sepia photograph of farmer William Smith with his family

Judith Walker on Farmstead

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

Trevor Strickland and Colin Capon on Milk

Ruth Stone - Sunny Bay 1930

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

The Knackers yard

Sam Biles on Knackers

Owl on branch

David Cooper on Wildlife

Cattle on Nettlestone Green

John Attrill on Milk

Andrew Groves - Barley Rick W Meath

Paul Whitelock on Manpower

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

John Attrill on Slaughterhouse

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

Betty Squibb tying up tomatoes - Knighton

Colin Capon on Hares

Sam Biles - Newport Market 1960s

Alan Emery on Milk

Geoff Phillips and parents

John Attrill on Milk

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

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

Roy Collins on Horses

Black and white photograph of a horse-drawn grass cutter by Golf links Road, Sandown taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel

David Cooper on Hedgerows

Glass negative of men moving felled trunks in hoist with horses standing ready to hand

Geoff Phillips on Elms

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