M.I.9. Escape & Evasion

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Save Trent Park - The Campaign to Protect & Enhance our Nation's Heritage

Further to my post on the potential (and subsequent) destruction of the unique MI9 HQ at Beaconsfield, the 'knock it down and sell it, damn the history' lobby are on the move again...<O></O>

The former WWII Combined Services Detailed Interrogation Centre (CSDIC), run by a top secret (and sister unit to MI9) known as MI9 is now also facing a bleak future. <O></O>

Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Joseph Kendrick, a highly experienced and skilled British Secret Service operative, was appointed to set up and be the overall head of the unit at its formation early in the war. Soon Trent Park would have a very special purpose, employing for the very first time, new and highly sophisticated eavesdropping and passive manipulation techniques in intelligence gathering from prisoners of war – a previously underexploited facet of military intelligence...<O></O>

Vital intelligence gained from the Trent Park interrogation centre included information on the Knickebein, X-Gerät and Y-Gerät radar systems; technologies that were used to assist accurate German 'beam' bombing raids on Britain. Valuable information on German U-boat tactics was also gained, further allowing allied detection and prosecution of the U-boat threat. <O></O>

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Some quite grim information was also discovered, as initial evidence of war crimes and atrocities, including the mass murder of Jews, was also discovered, some of it even implicating the Regular German Army in the atrocities. Other coups included definitive evidence of the development of the V-2 rocket at an army research centre in Peenemünde on the Baltic Coast, initiating heavy RAF bombing raid on the centre on 17th August 1943. <O></O>

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Today the beautiful Grade II listed mansion and heritage grounds at the heart of Trent Country Park are at risk - the current owners are facing financial problems and the future of the site is uncertain.<O></O>

In this, the 70th anniversary of the end of WWII, support the Campaign to ensure public access across the beautiful grounds is secured, and promote the potential of the house as a community asset for the public to enjoy.<O></O>

So what can you do to support Trent Park? <O></O>

Sign the Petition at the link below and express your support for the #SaveTrentPark Campaign which seeks to<O></O>

(1) secure permanent public access across the beautiful grounds around the Grade II listed mansion;<O></O>

(2) encourage a long term public use for the listed mansion and grounds, that would also promote the building's history particularly the important role it played in WWII, for the benefit of the local and wider community;<O></O>

(3) demand Enfield Council to do all it can to ensure the above aims are realised; and<O></O>

(4) demand Enfield Council consider the management and strategy of Trent Country Park as a whole and take steps to enhance and improve Park in its entirety.<O></O>

The #SaveTrentPark Campaign which is being co-ordinated by Cllr Jason Charalambous and David Burrowes MP, is supported by Theresa Villiers MP, Nick de Bois MP, historian David Collins MP, Dr Helen Fry, WWII veteran and secret listener Fritz Lustig, Alan Mitellas, Friends of Trent Country Park, Christ Church Cockfosters, Enfield Society, Trent Park Conservation Committee, Chalk Lane Resident’s Association, Hadley Wood Association, St Paul’s Hadley Wood, Southgate Hockey Centre, Trent Park Golf Club, Trent Park Running Club, Trent Park Equestrian Centre, Beales Hotels at West Lodge Park, Estate of Rex Whistler & many others.<O></O>

Visit their website: www.SaveTrentPark.org.uk<O></O>

Like them on facebook: www.facebook.com/SaveTrentPark<O></O>

Follow them on twitter: www.twitter.com/SaveTrentPark<O></O>

Trend them: #SaveTrentPark<O></O>

Thank you for your support!<O></O>

https://www.change.org/p/enfield-council-save-trent-park-the-campaign-to-protect-enhance-our-nation-s-heritage?tk=XKOmsIelpiuqDjnFxJMf_rZqSTqziHm013peND hIbQM&utm_source=supporter_signature_milestone_ema il&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=supporter_signatu res_5000<O></O>
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The PARR Cigarette Lighter

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