SDCV Meeting: Trent Park House of Secrets

Come and hear Dr Giuseppe Albano MBE, talk about Trent Park House of Secrets. He will dive into the mysteries of Trent Park House, with stories, secrets and memories. Don’t miss this unforgettable experience about our nationally important local museum.

Dr Giuseppe Albano MBE is the director of Trent Park House of Secrets, which opened in July 2026. He is a museum director with over 14 years’ experience running museums and cultural heritage sites. Most recently he was Director of the Freud Museum London from 2022 to 2025, and prior to this he served as Curator and Director of the Keats–Shelley House in Rome.

Trent Park House is one of England’s great country houses, remodelled by Sir Philip Sassoon in the 1920s. Following Sassoon’s death in 1939, Trent Park House began its second chapter as a wartime surveillance centre. The new museum unveils the extraordinary story of the ‘Secret Listeners’ – intelligence operators hidden in the basement – whose eavesdropping of senior German prisoners led to some of the most important intelligence breakthroughs of WWII.

Trent Park House, Enfield is of national and international significance on a level with Bletchley Park.