#19919 - Gren's Seat - the Rudduck Memorial
- Resource IDLocation
- 19919Newsletters
- Title/subtitle
- Gren's Seat - the Rudduck Memorial
- Author/Creator
- Hall, Michael
- Format
- Journal article
- Identifier
- Rudduck, Grenfell - town planner; National Capital Development Commission (NCDC); memorials - Acton; Rudduck, Loma; Hodgkin, David; Bunning, Walter - architect; Mendlesohn, Ronald; Coombes, Dr. H. (Nugget); Price, Sir Grenfell; Clough, Richard; Lyneham - nomenclature
- Publisher
- Canberra & District Historical Society
- Physical description
- 3 pages
- Summary
- Grenfell Rudduck was Assistant Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission when he died in December 1964. His friends and family erected a memorial seat and garden in his honour near the Acton Ferry Terminal. The article discusses the background to, and design of, the memorial.
- Availability
- Not for loan. Copy available for purchase from the Society's office.
- Notes
- In 2005 Rudduck had not been commemorated in Canberra's nomenclature. The article includes a UBD map indicating that what is now Ellenborough Street in Lyneham was to be called Rudduck Street. In 2018 Grenfell Avenue, in the Gungahlin suburb of Taylor, was named after him.
