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 Country Park, that huge open space near Cockfosters station (also home to London's implausible candidate for Camelot). The museum is housed inside a 1920s mansion called Trent Park, which looks simply gorgeous on a sunny day:
From 1923, this was home to the Sassoon family, most prominently Sir Philip Sassoon, who had the place dolled up like a Georgian stately home. Sassoon died in 1939, and his majestic pile was requisitioned by the government, who turned it to extraordinary purpose.
