Nailmaking (Shire Library)
Hugh Bodeywas trained as a teacher and taught at a school in the Forest of Dean  and then in Huddersfield. The characteristic weavers' cottage of that district were  in danger of being modernised or demolished, so he formed a trust to preserve one.  Within two years the trust had three cottages in a terrace, had restored handloom  weaving in one and had won the BBC award for industrial archaeology. He became Visiting  Lecturer in Industrial History at Huddersfield College of Education (Technical) and  ran courses for adults too. He now lectures in Devon. He started writing in 1970,  and has writtenDiscovering Industrial Archaeology and Historyand (with Michael  Hallas)Elementary Surveying for Industrial Archaeologistsfor Shire.