Downton Shabby’ Hopwood DePree’s memoir about his humorous and heart-warming adventures of moving from Hollywood to the borough of Rochdale to rescue his dilapidated 600-year-old
American producer Hopwood Depree traded Hollywood for his family’s ancestral home, a 600-year-old English estate that had fallen into complete despair. Depree details the massive
In this marvelous debut, film producer DePree leaves the Hollywood hills to resurrect his British ancestral home, a 50,000-square-foot estate in the English countryside. After
LONDON – Many people searching genealogy websites for information about their ancestors encounter poignant geographical details, long-lost relatives or historical insights – good, bad and ugly. Michigan-born actor,
It is a majestic castle that would not look out of place as the centrepiece of any glossy TV period drama. However, when an American
An actor who swapped Hollywood for Greater Manchester to rebuild a derelict ancestral home has won a £10,000 lottery grant for the project. Hopwood Hall,
“I’m so knackered,” Hopwood DePree says, carefully stepping through the undergrowth surrounding his ancestral home on the outskirts of Manchester. “Knackered? Is that the right
Source: The Guardian With his blinding white smile, tanned skin and bleached blond hair, the new American owner of one of the north of England’s
