Case study: Changing places, Petersfield

Question 1

petersfield locale

Answer 1

• situated near portsmouth
• 1hr train from london
• surrounded by smaller villages (e.g steep)
• trainline, to london and portsmouth
• the A3 road that connects petersfield to both london and portsmouth

Question 2

petersfield location

Answer 2

• situated in the south downs national park
• east hampshire
• south of the UK
• near the ashford hangers

Question 3

petersfield sense of place

Answer 3

• limited sense of place due to emergence of community
• and a large retired population

Question 4

petersfield past lived experiences

Answer 4

• strong agricultural community
• bonded by regular markets (town square)
• whole community events (taro fair)
• historically close community due to its collective purpose
• people who lived in petersfield contributed to petersfield.

Question 5

historic economic characteristics of petersfield

Answer 5

• rich agricultural history
• land use around petersfield geared towards sheep grazing
  > making products like lamb and
  wool
• historic regular markets selling local produce
• evidence, Rams walk
  > a shopping road named
• the road leading to churches school, called rams hill
• the spain, is where spanish merchants settled to sell their goods
• local artist, andy cheese cominshend to make a statue of a farmer and his dog and sheep
• petersfield modern culture represents its past

Question 6

current economic characteristics of petersfield

Answer 6

• A3 road constructed in 1979
  > a dual carriageway, what connects
  portsmouth to london through
  petersfield
• the petersfield railway station build in 1859
  > that connects portsmouth to
  london via petersfield
  > petersfield to london in 1hr5min
• petersfield now sits within london’s commuter belt
• attracting former residents in london who still work in london
• the nature of commuters mean that they are spending lots of time out of town and also spending lots of their money out of town
• leading to making it hard for local business
  > e.g the closing of the local cinema
  in 2007

Question 7

diversity of petersfield

Answer 7

• 96.2% of population is white
  > the average black % of cities is 2%
• rural towns and villages are more outdated and tend to have conservative views
• potential for racism
  > vivy brown resident of petersfield
  “walking into a country pub, it’s
  embarrassing to witness the
  silence and stares followed by the
  eruption of talking again once the
  customers have recovered from
  the cultural tsunami of having a
  black woman walk in”

Question 8

broadway park and economic iniquality in peterfeild

Answer 8

• poorest part of petersfield
• 67% of the population broadway park are economically inactive
• compared to the heath (where the majority of properties are all over 1mill)
• interview with the mayor, about the issue comutitres have with house prices
  > “commuters with high paying jobs
  in the cities are driving up house
  prices in the town, forcing those
  without incomes or with low
  incomes out of the town”

Question 9

character of petersfield through poetry

Answer 9

• edward thomas, local poet who was in love with the south downs
• died in 1917 during WW1
• had a stone commemorating his memory in the ashford hangers (poet stone)
• wrote about the beauty of the countryside
  > “fast beat, my heart at site of the
  tall slope of grass and yews”

Question 10

character of place through Newspaper / texts

Answer 10

• william cobbet, writer of rural rides
• cobbets view named after him in the ashford hangers

Question 11

character of place through paintings

Answer 11

• Flora Twort, painter
• one of the market square, showing a bustling community, with lots of social engagement and economic activity
  > no sign of diversity in the
  painting
• painting of the taro fair
  > celebrating the community
  togetherness
  (the taro fair no longer runs)

Question 12

character of place through sculpture

Answer 12

• andy cheese, local artist
• a shepherd, two sheep and his dog in rams wall