IT was one of the unlikely television hits of 2014.

Now the cameras have been back to Metro Salvage in Waterloo Street to film the second series of BBC1's Scrappers, expected to be aired in the summer.

The show charts the ups and downs of life at the multi-million-pound Bolton scrapyard — run by Terry Walker and his wife Lyndsay.

Programme-makers spent five weeks filming from mid-November, arriving just as the couple had returned from a sunshine break.

Mrs Walker, aged 50, who lives in Radcliffe, said: "They've been filming since we landed off the plane.

"We got back on the 16th of November and they started on the Monday morning, the 17th, woke us up as home so it's been really hectic.

"It's hard work, it's not easy.

"It just seemed to come really fast."

Mrs Walker says she was surprised by the popularity of the first series, which featured the yard's staff including Debs Guffogg and sister Michelle Humphreys, from the onsite cafe, and teenager Lewis O’Boyle, who no longer works there.

Mrs Walker said: "I was quite surprised really, it was quite popular, I think.

"They get storylines, they just pick up on various things.

"They filmed us getting all ready with the health and safety.

"We've got a lot of training going on with the lads to comply with all the regulations. That's been quite busy and that'll be in the new series."

Mrs Walker is looking forward to a fresh start in 2015, after business problems earlier this year which forced her to take the tough decision to put the company into liquidation.

She said: "I had to do it or we would have lost everything.

"It's all looking better.

"I didn't want to do it, I didn't want to upset anybody but other than that, what we'd worked 30 years for, they would have liquidated us anyway.

"I'm glad I did it now because it has put my mind at rest."