He lectured on many different aspects of ancient Egypt to Egyptology Societies within the U.K and abroad.
He owned and ran the Ancient Egypt Picture Library and was a photographer with a collection of over 30,000 images of the ancient and more recent archaeological sites.
These images were used for his lectures and courses and also supplied to publishers and television companies.
Partridge organised specialist trips to Egypt to visit the main, but also some of the more obscure and less visited sites, acting as team leader.
He had been an Egyptological advisor to several Television programmes and also to filmmakers, including appearances in documentaries.