'His ancestral home is a tip': the Californian restoring Rochdale's grandest house

Hopwood DePree’s family occupied Hopwood Hall until the 1920s, now the film producer has persuaded the council to back his renovation

With his blinding white smile, tanned skin and bleached blond hair, the new American owner of one of the north of England’s most important manor houses does not travel incognito.

“Mr Hopwood, is that you?” The middle-aged women walking their dogs were very excited to encounter Hopwood DePree driving down the crater-filled lane to Hopwood Hall in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

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