Tom Hartley: The Dealmaker

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Shane Meadows, writer and director, on his vision: I really wanted to delve into the history of this story and the circumstances that lead to an entire West Yorkshire community risking their lives to put food in their children’s bellies. But new Type Approval Import regulations, which meant only official franchised dealers could import and register cars in the UK, pretty much killed Tom’s business off. “I basically went from hero to zero overnight because I had spotted a gap in the market, but I became too successful and was brought down by the establishment,” he said. He told Burton Live: “ Tom Hartley’s story is not only about one man’s personal success and achievement, it is also about a business which has raised the profile of the district, which has been reinvesting in the locality, providing much needed leisure services which have benefited many people in South Derbyshire for many years.

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Presented Tom Hartley, whose book ‘Written in Stone’ is the authoritative text on the City Cemetery, the documentary takes visitors on a virtual walking tour of the Cemetery, stopping off at notable graves and locations along the way.Opened in 1869, the Cemetery is a rare surviving example of a Victorian “Garden Cemetery”, and is one Belfast's true heritage gems.

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What an experience, I don’t even know how to describe it to be honest, Shane’s just a really incredible thinker. It’s quite magical to see the way that he thinks and how he really makes an idea come to life. The way that he works is so unusual, I like the fact that he works through improvisation. Before I came on to this project, I was studying at Uni and I worked a lot with improvisation so it was really interesting to leave Uni and come on to this project and be surrounded by such a talented thinker. It’s just breath-taking. Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth It is a fascinating story, very inspiring being able to achieve whatever you can and I am an example of that.Starstudded customers include Rod Stewart, Elton John and golfing ace Rory McIlroy. He has even sold a Ferrari once belonging to Hollywood move star Nicholas Cage.

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Ms Rooney added: "“There’s so much history stored up in the City Cemetery this film barely scratches the surface of everything there is to see and discover. I would invite everyone who is interested in history to watch the film and then go and explore the Cemetery for themselves.” Every day was a highlight. Working on this job was a bit of a religious experience, you have to give yourself to it and the flow of it, and I’ve liked that. You didn’t know what was going to happen each day, in terms of how we made it, because it was improv, so for me there were always little magic moments that you couldn’t predict or foresee in the scriptments, and you just go that’s magic, that’s the alchemy that is beautiful. So I enjoyed seeing those things pop up. Someone might do something or it might be a feeling, or it might be coming in to a space where the art department had just smashed it. I really enjoyed observing every day, the bits of magic the crew the team, the actors created. Olivia Pentelow I really liked Bell House because behind it there’s a vista where we would all chill, and just being there was peaceful and beautiful. Working with Shane as an adult now, I think it’s totally different in the sense that you can’t get away with the things that you got away with as a kid, it just doesn’t work like that. When I told my Dad that I was doing this, one of the first things he said to me was ‘make sure you go and make Shane know you’re not just that little kid anymore, that you’ve grown in to a respectable man (ish) – I’m a new parent, I’m married now – and I’d like to think that I take the craft quite seriously now, so I just wanted to show Shane and people who are watching the show as well, that I’m willing to put work in to things and hopefully Shane seems happy with everything I’m doing. So yeah it has been different working with Shane as a man as opposed to being a kid. Stevie Binns Lifetime achievement is the best and it’s given by people who admire your achievements in life. This is the biggest highlight for me. ‘I don’t get many honours but when I do I get the big ones, and this is the biggest for me.’

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He tells how he later had his fingers burned when he was caught illegally driving after buying a Rolls-Royce in Aberdeen and taking it to Glasgow to meet customers - aged just 14.Ben Myers, author of The Gallows Pole on when and how he came across the true story behind his book: