I took £20 to Bolton's booming car boot sale and it felt like everyone was there for the same thing

It had been years since I'd been to a car boot sale. After doing a stall to sell some of my children's toys when they were younger, the 5am get-up and requests to sell items worth pounds for a pittance was not something I was keen to repeat in a hurry.

But there's one car boot sale that's booming right now and you don't need to be up at the crack of dawn to experience it.

As well as the usual Sundays, Bolton Car Boot Sale now takes place each Wednesday, open to sellers from 10am and buyers from 11am. Parking is a quid, or £3 if you want to get there early.

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It was just after 11am when I arrived - as a customer this time - at the site outside the Bolton Wanderers stadium in Horwich. The place was already heaving, with row upon row of sellers and hundreds of shoppers there to scout out the bargains.

I'm pretty sure that no matter what you had in mind to buy, this place would have it.

There was everything from clothing - 'all ladies clothes 50p' shouted one seller - to trainers, toys, tools, toilet rolls (£6 for a pack of 36 in case you're wondering), plants, computer games and everything in between. Someone was even selling wheelchairs, for a bargain £30 each.

One little boy looked made up with the tub of mini cars his mum had snapped up, insisting on holding the entire box while being pushed along in his trolley. And it's places like this where it's possible to find the toys favoured by your child that are sometimes no longer available in the shops.

Another buyer was having a good root through a box of plates, probably in the hope of finding some precious pottery that might make them a pretty penny.

But the biggest queue