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To make it easier for you to find fascinating snippets of information on specific subjects such as milking or harvesting, we’ve sorted through all the interviews and put together 36 different themes. Put your mouse over or touch the photos to see the theme names and then click to see more.

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Tractor and Baler in the 1960s

Baler

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Bulls

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

Butter

Buzzard on post

Buzzards

- Combine Harvester 1983

Combine

Christine Broom with prize sheep at Agricultural Show

County Show

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

Cows

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

Eggs

Grandad Lock haymaking

Elevator

Glass negative of elm trees

Elms

Andrew Groves -Langbridge Farm aerial view 1959

Farmsteads

The Gilten Market - H Biles at the rear

Gilten Market

Rabbiting at Mottistone

Hares

Andrew Groves - Strawberry picking, Newchurch

Harvest

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm 1920s

Hay

Black and white photograph of William Walter Roach (Agricultural Labourer, Carter) with women visible down the road

Hedgerows

Bert Cooper (David's dad) with horse

Horses

Knackers cart and horse

Knackers

Geoff Phillips and gang (local men) on the trailer haymaking time

Manpower

Sepia photograph showing milk float and horse belonging to Mr Morris of The Mall, Newport. Small girl in sunbonnet and boots standing by float.

Milk

David Cooper's Great Grandfather Cooper wearing a yoke carrying milk bucket

Milk Quotas

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

Newport Creameries

Black and white photograph of sheep being sold at Newport Cattle Market at the Spring Sale - Shows farmers and sellers, including David Dockrill

Newport Market

NFU dinner

NFU

Pigs at the County Show

Pigs

Black and white photograph of a group of farm workers and longshoremen outside the Chine Inn, Shanklin 1860

Pub

Hurdles and sheep

Sheep

H Biles and D Biles at Scarrots Lane,

Slaughterhouse

Geoffrey & Glen Draper with threshing machine

Soils

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

Thresher

Alan Emery - Tractors

Tractor

Cattle on barges at Yarmouth

Transport

Beryl with other Land Army women

War

Glass negative of nestlings (possibly Edwardian)

Wildlife

Snow on the Isle of Wight

Winter 1962-63

Betty Squibb tying tomatoes at Knighton

Young Farmers

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