RAF Kidbrooke
[5] Between 1949 and 1953, the Joint Services School for Linguists taught servicemen and women with an aptitude for languages to speak Russian.[citation needed] During the Second World War, on 14 February 1944, Iris Miriam Deeley, a leading aircraftwoman with No 1 Balloon Centre was murdered near Well Hall railway station as she was returning to Kidbrooke.[8][9][10] After the base's closure, much of the site was used for housing, with the Ferrier Estate (1968–2012) being constructed to the south of the railway lines.In the 1980s the Rochester Way Relief Road was built across the northern part of the site, alongside the railway line, carrying the A2 south of its earlier route.The Kidbrooke training facility was on the site today occupied by Thomas Tallis School,[1][4] in which the RAF Linguists' Association unveiled a commemorative plaque in 2008[11] (re-dedicated in July 2014).