Tom Hartley: The Dealmaker

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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.’ Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Brand New! Sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Never opened! No signs of wear. Set in the moorland hills of 18th Century Yorkshire, England, is a country divided. As the aristocracy are building the first cotton mills and factories, the common people are starving. David Hartley (Michael Socha) has been away from his family’s remote moor-top dwelling for seven years. On his journey home to Cragg Vale, West Yorkshire, David gets lost in the moors. He’s dragging a mysterious looking bag of tools with him and on his last legs. 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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We couldn’t have made this film without Tom, he literally wrote the book on the City Cemetery and he is such a terrific host," she 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. Working with Shane is like swimming in the ocean, in the sense that it’s limitless. It’s so open and terrifying, because you’re given so much room to explore, to take a risk. That’s very rare and also Shane puts a lot of trust in you, he invites you to decide what your personal investment is and to decide what matters to your character and where do you want to go and that very generous invitation, it gives you a lot as a performer, and not just as a performer, but also as a person, so you ask yourself what matters to me and what am I wanting to explore here and what am I bringing to this and what is this other person bringing and what are we making together. I think that’s just a gift really. Adam Fogerty 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

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Ben Myers, author of The Gallows Pole on when and how he came across the true story behind his book: 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 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.”

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. Personally, he is a great guy with a great business and he deserves this book to be his day in the sun.” 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. It is a fascinating story, very inspiring being able to achieve whatever you can and I am an example of that. I was approached by a few publishers. I do get recognised as the name Tom Hartley is so well known.