People who search genealogy websites often find birth and marriage records, newspaper clippings, faded photographs or maybe a long-lost relative. Hopwood DePree found a 60-room
This was one of my favourite summer reads — a real-life story from Hopwood DePree, a Hollywood producer, who decides to give up Tinseltown and
The Hopwood Hall Estate open day to celebrate the kick-off of summer and the publication of Hopwood DePree’s new book ‘Downton Shabby’ took place on
In 2013, Hollywood producer Hopwood Depree was winding down after work with some wine and casual Internet scrolling. Scanning ancestry websites, he discovered a massive
Part of an historic hall being renovated by a former Hollywood film producer is to open to the public for the first time in years.
When US film-maker Hopwood DePree discovered his family’s derelict English ancestral home a decade ago, he left Hollywood and started a new life near Rochdale
A middle-aged American actor, disenchanted with Los Angeles life, falls for an ageing Brit, sells up in sunny California and relocates wholesale to our small,
