Tom Hartley: The Dealmaker

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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. Ben Myers, author of The Gallows Pole on when and how he came across the true story behind his book: 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. 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. I moved to the area in 2009 and lived in Mytholmroyd and I heard a bit about this local mythology but there wasn’t that much information about it, and I didn’t look too deeply in to it. One day my wife, Adele, who’s also a writer, was visiting a place called The Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle in Durham, she walked in to the library and was looking along the shelves and there was one book that didn’t have a spine on it. She pulled it out, put it on the table and it fell open at the trial notes of the Cragg Vale coiners, so she was reading them from 1770 and she came home that day and said ‘You know the coiners story?’ and I said ‘yes I know a bit about it’ and she said ‘that would make a brilliant TV series, you should write it’ and I said ‘well I don’t know how to write telly, but I could have a go and write a novel and maybe Shane Meadows could film it one day with some of the actors from This Is England.’ That was in 2014, and it wasn’t even a plan, it was sort of a joking pipe dream really.

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Condition: New. The inspirational story of Tom Hartley The Dealmaker. Tom s candid autobiography tells of a boy who left school at 11, selling his first car at 12, and his extraordinary journey to become a supercar dealer and multi-millionaire. The story is expertly tran. I was approached by a few publishers. I do get recognised as the name Tom Hartley is so well known.

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This is always an incredibly tough category to choose who will win but it’s great to see it go to Tom. 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.Tom said: “I think the driver thought I was going to mug him, but when I explained who I was, we talked, and he agreed to sell his car to me.” 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.” He told Burton Live: “It is something I had been asked to do but I didn’t feel ready for it as there were other things I wanted to do first.

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Instantly Shane’s sense of humour draws you to him as a person, and instantly puts you all at ease. From there you’ve got this amazing level playing field that you’re all on, Shane’s very much on the level of the actors and he’s part of this with you and he’s really driving you forward. Obviously he’s an incredible visionary and he’ll see something very small in a scene and he’ll come in and make the smallest suggestion which will then grow and grow and you go off and play with it. It’s an amazing experience for an actor to have that creative playing field and it’s quite rare. Soraya Jane Nabipour 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.’ Film Producer and Director Kerry Rooney, of local production company Kaleidoscope, said the team had an "incredible time" as they worked to reveal “a treasure trove of stories that reveal the amazingly rich history of Belfast".When I first read the beginning of the scriptments, I felt very blessed and very grateful, to go from doing nothing like this before to this, it’s a big step. And the story is so important to now. Everyone has gone through really difficult times in their life and not had much at one point, especially with Covid as well, which is out of everybody’s control, and the financial impact that has happened through that, this story is important to now and what people will do to survive. If you have to feed your kids, you’ll do anything to keep them alive, more than yourself, and that desperation bit of the story, how desperate the community are, it’s very relevant to now. I think audiences will find familiarities in the story and some comfort in that. It shows the teamwork, the bond and the love that everybody has for each other really pushes them to do what they need to do. It’s not out of a bad place, it’s not like they want to do it just to be greedy, they need to do it to survive, so I think there’s definitely some common ground for every person to relate to that.