Horses
Horses played a huge part in farming and many of our farmers and their families talk fondly of the work horses.
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The IOW Hunt at Gatcombe House
Collection: Sam Biles
Copyright: From a private collection
Date taken: 1960s
Location taken: Gatcombe House
Keyword: Hunt, Horse

Knackers cart and horse
Collection: Sam Biles
Copyright: From a private collection
Keyword: Knackers, Horse

H Flux with horse and cart
Collection: Peggy Jolliffe
Copyright: From a private collection
Location taken: Dukes Farm
Keyword: Horse

Black and white photograph of a market with livestock in progress in St James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: Newport Market
Keyword: Newport Market, Sheep, Horses

Tinted photograph shows a blacksmith shoeing a horse, with tools and a bicycle visible in the background
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken:
Location photo taken:
Keyword: Horse, Blacksmith

Sepia photograph showing a haymaking scene, with loaded wagon, two horses, three men, three girls and their implements
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken:
Location photo taken:
Keyword: Horse, Haymaking

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
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horse, Haymaking

Black and white photograph which shows St James' Square, Newport cattle market before Victoria memorial
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1895
Location photo taken: St James' Square, Newport
Keyword: Sheep. Horse, Newport Market

Glass lantern slide of market at St. James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market, Sheep

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market, Sheep

Glass Negative of Troops assembling
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horse

Glass negative of men moving felled trunks in hoist with horses standing ready to hand
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horse

Glass negative of men working with two horses harnessed to heavy log cart
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horse

Glass negative of a man with 2 horses harnessed to heavy log cart
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horse

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market, Sheep

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market, Sheep

Glass negative of men using horse drawn plough
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Haymaking

Glass negative of three men haymaking with horse and cart
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Haymaking

Glass negative of haymaking with horse and wagon
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horse, Haymaking

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market, Sheep

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market, Sheep

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market, Sheep

Glass negative of market at St. James Square, Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market

Glass negative of horse transport and a crowd assembled in St. James Square, Newport, for market day
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: St. James Square, Newport
Keyword: Horse, Newport Market

Glass negative of two horse drawn ploughs in a field
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horses

Glass negative of a pair of horses drawing a plough
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horses

Glass negative of horses pulling wagons, loaded with willow
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Keyword: Horses, Transportation

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
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1947
Keyword: Horse

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
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1947
Keyword: Horse

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
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1946
Location photo taken: Golf links Road, Sandown
Keyword: Horse

Glass negative of two horse ploughs
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: Edwardian
Keyword: Horse

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
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: Pan Manor Farm
Keyword: Milk, Horse

Black and white photograph of a farmer rolling a field with a horse drawn roller taken by Isle of Wight amateur photographer Fernao Pedro Mauricio Joao de Castel-Branco Manuel
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1946
Keyword: Horse, Machinery

Sepia postcard showing men, horses and plough outside blacksmith's shop Brighstone, IW
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: 1935
Location photo taken: Brighstone
Keyword: Blacksmith

Black and white photograph of William Walter Roach (Agricultural Labourer, Carter) with women visible down the road
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Date taken: c.1890
Location photo taken: Holden Farm pond near Godshill
Keyword: Horses

Robert Richards on horse & cart coming back from Sandown where they sold butter & eggs
Collection: Andrew Groves
Copyright: From a private collection
Keyword: Horse, Cart,

Picking spuds at Roslin farm
Collection: Beryl Flux
Copyright: From a private collection
Location photo taken: Roslin Farm
Keyword: Potatoes, Horse

Bert Cooper (David’s dad) with horse
Collection: David Cooper
Copyright: From a private collection
Date taken:
Location photo taken: Holgate Farm
Keyword: Horse

Three horses and binder
Collection: John Attrill
Copyright: From a private collection
Keyword: Horse, Binder

Sepia photograph showing milk float and horse belonging to Mr Morris of The Mall, Newport. Small girl in sunbonnet and boots standing by float.
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: The Mall, Newport
Keyword: Milk

Langbridge Farm
Collection: Andrew Groves
Copyright: From a private collection
Location photo taken: Langbridge Farm
Keyword: Horses, Farmstead

Haymaking at Apse Manor Farm
Collection: Arthur Mew
Copyright: From a private collection
Date taken: 1920s
Location photo taken: Apse Manor Farm
Keyword: Hay, Haymaking, Horses, Manpower, Cart

Grandad Lock haymaking
Collection: Nigel Hayward
Copyright: From a private collection
Date taken: Unknown
Location taken: Unknown
Keyword: Horse, Elevator, Hay

1990.244 Sepia photograph showing George Guy(aged 16) standing beside Mr Morris's milk float Newport
Collection: Carisbrooke Castle Museum
Copyright: Courtesy of Carisbrooke Castle Museum All Rights Reserved
Location photo taken: Newport
Keyword: Milk, Butter, Horse