HISTORIAN and former Belfast Lord Mayor Tom Hartley has presented a new documentary exploring the lesser known histories of the City Cemetery. Fast forward more than 40 years and weathering the storm of three recessions, Tom now boasts a massive base with showrooms near his gated home, in Overseal. He has sold cars to the super rich and famous for decades. The main pathway around the original cemetery was laid out in the shape of a bell to represent Belfast. The cemetery is the final resting place of a variety of notable historical figures including Sir Edward Harland of Harland and Wolfe and boasts a number of unique architectural features such as the Central Steps and Victorian Fountain. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Brand New! Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Never opened! No signs of wear. 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.

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Tom Hartley an impressive and aspirational growth story listed as one of the 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain" 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.’ Dubbing himself ‘The Dealmaker’ which is also the title of his book, Tom tells his story of life growing up with a traditional Romany family in Glasgow, to making his first million by the age of 17.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.

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The first time I read Shane’s scriptments, the colours, the characters, the world, Shane’s humour that a lot of us have seen throughout his work prior to this, was all there and that just jumped out straight away. Obviously there’s a lot of serious themes and the content at times is quite heavy but Shane’s very unique but familiar humour I was really drawn to first and foremost. Behind that is obviously this really rich history of the family itself, the Hartleys, but also the area, the Calder Valley and this particular part of West Yorkshire. It’s a real love letter to the area as well. Working with Shane, I’ve come to really learn that he’s probably one of the most humble people I’ve ever met in my life. Even though when you watch his work, you’re like wow this is Shane Meadows, but when you meet him and work with him, he’s so humble in terms of he’s like a friend, the way he speaks to you, he’s welcomed me as a non-professional who’s come from the open casting, and he’s treated me exactly the same as everybody else on the job. Thomas TurgooseBen 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. 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. ANDRÉE MURPHY: Legacy plans lay dynamite under victims' hopes GERRY ADAMS: At St Comgall's, Eileen's shining vision becomes a reality DÚLRA: A new way to learn about the birds and the bees JUDE COLLINS: Efforts to create a single conflict narrative won't succeed His passion and enthusiasm for the subject really comes across and he is a natural in front of the camera.”

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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. 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. 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 I was approached by a few publishers. I do get recognised as the name Tom Hartley is so well known. Long-time friend and chief executive of South Derbyshire District Council Frank McArdle heaped praise on the businessman.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 The fascinating life of Tom Hartley, 59, has been laid bare in his first autobiography detailing his astonishing rise to the top to become one of the world’s most successful luxury car dealers. The documentary, Written in Stone, is eponymously named after Mr Hartley's book, and was produced with help of funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.