In 2016, Don Eades, a photographer from nearby Buriton gave his life's work to Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery. His photographs are windows into everyday life in Petersfield during the second half of the twentieth century.

In the 1960s Petersfield was changing. It was the job of Don Eades, freelance photographer for the Petersfield Post, to document that change. He photographed demolition and rebuilding, the last days of the cattle market and new industries and fashions that reflected national changes in culture. 

The last photographs in the collection date to 1987. Thirty years later, with help from members of The Arts Society Petersfield, we began sorting, identifying and selecting the photographs that we would most like to share with you.

Skating on Heath Pond, Petersfield, 1967 - single blank greetings card, with envelope