Source: The Times
It is a story worthy of a Hollywood film. A successful actor-cum-producer browses the internet in the early hours from his home in sun-drenched LA and discovers that his unusual name links his ancestry to a dilapidated country pile in a former industrial town in northern England.
Now Hopwood DePree XIV is embarking on his latest project: restoring that same country pile in Rochdale with the aim of making it his home as well as an international cultural and community hub for artists…