London mansion where ‘secret listeners’ spied on Nazi prisoners for intel opens as museum

New museum sheds fresh light on the Jewish ‘secret listeners’ who helped save Britain from Nazis

Trent Park in north London was used by the British to bug Nazis – and Jewish refugees from Germany played a vital role

London mansion where ‘secret listeners’ spied on Nazi prisoners for intel opens as museum

Trent Park House of Secrets tells the story of how mainly Jewish refugees covertly transcribed conversations from the building's basement

House Of Secrets: New WWII Museum Opens At Trent Park Near Cockfosters

Image: Matt Brown It's a museum of two parts: stately home, and wartime espionage bunker. London has a new museum and it's called 'Trent Park House of Secrets'. If you're a jaded hack who's sifted through thousands of press releases over the years, you might suspect an element of spin and hyperbole in that enticing name. Not a bit of it. Trent Park was a hub of wartime secrets. It's the real deal. You'll find it at the eastern end of Trent Count…

Trent Park House of Secrets opens, revealing one of Britain's greatest wartime intelligence operations

Trent Park House of Secrets has opened in North London, revealing the remarkable story of the WWII intelligence operation hidden inside Sir Philip Sassoon's former home.

Trent Park House of Secrets – London’s WWII spy museum has opened

A grand country house that became one of Britain’s most closely guarded wartime secrets has opened as a new museum, revealing the little-known intelligence operation that helped shorten the Second World War. Trent Park House, in north London, looks every inch the elegant country mansion. Rebuilt in the early 20th century in a mock-Georgian style, it was home to the fabulously wealthy and well-connected Sassoon family, who entertained royalty, po…

Opening of new museum at Trent Park House hailed as 'extraordinary achievement'

Trent Park House of Secrets tells two contrasting stories of pre-war socialising and wartime intelligence gathering, reports James Cracknell From left; trustee Helen Lederer, co-chair Jason Charalambous, co-chair David Cholmondeley, and director Giuseppe Albano A new Enfield museum celebrating the role played by the ‘secret listeners’ who gathered crucial intelligence during the Second World War opens to the public today (Tuesday 21st) for the f…