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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

Hopwood DePree who is renovating his ancestral home Hopwood Hall in Middleton has been invited by Historic Houses to give the keynote speech at Historic Houses’

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

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.

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,

Above my home in the Hollywood Hills, just one helicopter was circling, so it was quieter than usual.  It was one of those nights where

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