Friends from vet school days and back from service with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps during WW11, Richard Hartley and Charles Foden founded St Peter’s Vets in Petersfield in 1947. The practice became quickly established and further vets were recruited to treat predominantly horses and farm animals in the area around Petersfield. In the 1970s, further changes heralded the practice we know today. In 1972 the practice moved from the town square to its current premises in St Peters Road. It gave up horse work in 1973 (Richard Hartley left to form his own specialist equine practice) allowing St Peter’s to concentrate and develop an expertise in small animal practice. The surgery in London Road, Horndean was opened in 1978, undergoing further significant expansion with the addition of a surgical suite in 2002.
