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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jonathan Prynn

Famous Marylebone building known as "spy corner" where SOE agents were trained sold for £3m

A Marylebone office building that served as a secret Second World War training centre for spies preparing to be dropped into Nazi occupied France has been sold for around £3 million.

The Grade II listed Georgian property at 1 Dorset Square was known as “Spy Corner” during the conflict and became a symbol of Anglo-French co-operation and friendship. For the past 36 years it has been used as a French language centre run by the Alliance Francaise de Londres.

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