Trent Park House of Secrets opens at former WWII intelligence base in London

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Trent Park House of Secrets, a new museum dedicated to Britain’s wartime intelligence operations, has opened to the public in north London.

Located in a historic country house within the 413-acre Trent Country Park in Enfield, the museum explores both the interwar social world of Sir Philip Sassoon and a covert wartime intelligence operation.

Before World War Two, Trent Park was the residence of Sassoon, who hosted political figures and the royal family, and was a close friend of the future Edward VIII and Winston Churchill.

When Sassoon died, the country house was requisitioned by the government as a centre for intelligence operations.

Senior German officers were held captive in Trent Park, comparable in importance to Bletchley Park, while their conversations were recorded through a secret network of miniature bugging devices.