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SOE 'Safe House' up for sale.

Discussion in 'The Secret War: Resistance and Espionage During WW' started by GRW, Jun 11, 2025 at 12:36 PM.

  1. GRW

    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    This place is literally in the middle of nowhere.
    "A Highland house where "troublesome" secret agents were kept busy during World War Two has been put up for sale.
    Inverlair Lodge was taken over in 1941 by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), an army of saboteurs and guerrilla fighters formed to fight behind enemy lines.
    Inverlair's residents were foreign nationals who had been unable to perform their duties but needed to be kept safe because of the dangerous secrets they knew about the Allied war effort.
    Supervised by British soldiers, the agents were kept occupied with a range of tasks including mending boots and salvaging scrap metal from the surrounding countryside."
    Lochaber's Inverlair Lodge: World War Two secret agents' house put up for sale - BBC News
     
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    Reminds me of "Andor" - Season two is probably the best Star Wars show yet...
     
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    About ten years ago I visited the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu House in Hampshire, which had been an SOE finishing school.
    Remember getting off the free bus outside the SOE museum on the estate and thinking 'need to visit that'.
    And then promptly forgot. Still kicking meself.:oops:
     

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