Editing Kidbrooke (section)

==Features==
[[File:Kidbrooke1980.jpg|thumb|right|Houses and gardens in Kidbrooke, January 1980]]
Immediately south of the former Ferrier Estate is [[Sutcliffe Park]] which includes a lake, acting as a flood defence, and created by partly releasing the Kyd Brook from concrete conduits underground in which it had run until 2006.

Rochester Way, a road which was built along much of the course of the old country lane Kidbrooke Lane, was intended as a bypass for Shooters Hill to the north. Rochester Way has itself now been bypassed by a dual carriageway – part of the [[A2 road (Great Britain)|A2 road]] – built in the 1980s over most of Kidbrooke Green. A small remaining piece of this open land, alongside the road, is now Kidbrooke Green Park, and adjacent to that, a small [[nature reserve]] managed by Greenwich Council. The nature reserve is visible, but not open to the public.

Little sign of the former RAF base remains. A handful of buildings survive, south of the houses of Nelson Mandela Road, to the north of the railway line, that escaped demolition when the Rochester Way Relief Road dual carriageway was constructed. These are currently used for additional collection storage by the [[National Maritime Museum]],<ref>[https://www.secret-bases.co.uk/secret5.htm Secret Bases]</ref> with some now removed to make way for a new purpose-built conservation facility, the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre, which opened in 2019.<ref>[https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/prince-philip-maritime-collections-centre The Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre], [[Royal Museums Greenwich]]. Accessed 2022-08-14.</ref><ref>Will Noble, [https://londonist.com/london/secret/prince-philip-maritime-collections-centre-visit This Kidbrooke Housing Estate Is Hiding An Incredible Collection Of Maritime Treasures], ''[[londonist.com]]''.</ref>

To the west of this [[Thomas Tallis School]] is built on another part of the former base, the former site of a prisoner-of-war camp, [[barrage balloon]] centre, and then a military language-teaching facility.<ref name="TFE">{{cite web|title=Barrage balloons and trainee spies in Kidbrooke|url=https://thamesfacingeast.wordpress.com/tag/ferrier-estate/|website=Thames Facing East|access-date=2 October 2017}}</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/06/a8175206.shtml BBC "People's War"]</ref> (There are several other military facilities in the general vicinity, which is also close to a surviving base in [[Woolwich]], long home to the [[Royal Artillery]] and now to other parts of the [[British Army]].)