Scrapyard Dynasty: Meet the Greater Manchester family making millions from metal

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In the heart of Bolton lies one of the biggest car breakers in the country which has made serious money out of exporting used car parts to countries as far wide as Nigeria and Poland.

Launched in 1990 by husband and wife duo Terry and Lyndsay Walker, Metro Salvage on Waterloo Street has grown from a small yard to a massive multi-million pound empire. For Terry, a self-proclaimed ‘wheeler dealer from birth’, it’s something he feels he was always destined to do.

“I’ve been wheeling and dealing since school,” Terry, 57, tells the M.E.N. “At the beginning, I was buying and selling motorbikes and push bikes at the back of my grandma’s house.

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“I remember being 16 or 17 and my driving instructor came round one day to take me for my lessons and he asked about the bikes. I ended up selling him one. From then on, every time he picked me up, the deal was he’d paid me £25 and I didn’t pay for my lesson.

“When I finished, I managed to get free lessons for Lyndsey in exchange for the bikes too.” Terry and Lyndsay, 57, met at an open day at Sharples High School in Astley Bridge at the age of 13. They married when they were both 19 and have been inseparable ever since and recently celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary.

They are behind the day-to-day running of the business, now affectionately know as The Scrappers, with Terry on the ground making deals and helping out their team of 35 while Lyndsay runs the admin and upkeep of the yard.

Terry left school at the age of 14 to work with his brother in their dad's scrap yard, but he says it wasn’t a pleasurable experience. “Me and my brother did really well at it but we never got