Bill Hogarth MBE – Coppice Merchant

Wood Education Programme Trust. 2001. 84pp, colour photos.Subtitled “A Life in the Woodlands of the Lake District”, this slim paperback has been edited by Alan Shepley from material left by Bill Hogarth, who worked the Cumbrian woodlands as a coppicer, like his father before him, and later in life began to pass on his skills to the increasing number of people who became interested in the old woodland crafts.