Shrewsbury cookery school put up for sale by owner
The boss of a cookery school in Shrewsbury which attracted some of the UK's best chefs to Shropshire today spoke about her decision to sell up.
The Brompton Cookery School and B&B, on the Attingham Park Estate, at Atcham, on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, is on the market for around £25,000.
Today owner Philippa Home said she would be sorry to leave, but she had recently married and also had other business interests.
She said: "I used to live in Shrewsbury but I've got married and now live near Nantwich so it's a long commute into work – the person I married was a man that I actually met at the cookery school. It'll be a great shame to leave because I built it up from nothing and so I shall be sorry to say goodbye. But life changes and people move on and I now live outside the area.
"I have a few other business interests and so we've put the cookery school on the market, including all the fixtures and fittings and goodwill."
Mrs Home said she would miss many of the chefs that she had worked with, as well as the staff at Brompton and regulars on her courses.
She said: "We've built the business to the stage where there are lots of people who come back and I have very much enjoyed seeing them.
"The time is right for another person to come along and take over."
Brompton Cookery School proved a hit with people from across the region who paid up to £145 for one-day courses from star chefs including Marcus Bean, from the New Inn at Baschurch, a number of Michelin-starred cooks who have come to the area and dinner party doyenne Jane Bennett.
