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===NSW Central Coast=== [[File:Monument Henry Kendall (To Kendall's Rock).jpg|thumb|Kendall monument with poem inscription on plaque (2022)]] On the [[Central Coast (New South Wales)|New South Wales Central Coast]], a number of locations are named in his honour: * Henry Kendall Street in [[West Gosford]] is home to the stone building (now a museum known as 'Henry Kendall Cottage') where he lived for some time with the Fagans. * A retirement village in the nearby suburb of [[Wyoming, New South Wales|Wyoming]] is also named in his honour: Henry Kendall Gardens (formally the Henry Kendall Village). * [[Henry Kendall High School]] (also in West Gosford). * The biennial Henry Kendall Poetry Award,<ref>[http://www.centralcoastpoets.com.au Link text]. Central Coast Poets Inc.(NSW)</ref> run by Central Coast Poets Inc., has been won by poets [[Louise Oxley]], [[Judy Johnson (writer)|Judy Johnson]] and [[Joan Kerr]]. On the hillside above West Gosford, near "Lookout – West Gosford" is a stone monument located on a tight bend of the Central Coast Highway, built sometime before 1920.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Searle, E. W. | title=Monument to Henry Kendall, Pacific Highway, Gosford, New South Wales, ca. 1935 | year=1920 | section=1 negative : nitrate, b&w ; 11.6 x 16.2 cm. | series=E.W. Searle collection of photographs | publisher= | url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-141900697 | id=nla.obj-141900697 | access-date=4 October 2022 | via=Trove}}</ref> The marble plaque is inscribed: <blockquote><poem>TO KENDALL'S ROCK There was a rock-pool in a glen Beyond Narrara's{{efn|[[Narara, New South Wales]]}} sands; The mountains shut it in from men In flowerful fairy lands. But once we found its dwelling place— The lovely and the lone— And, in a dream, I stopped to trace Our names upon a stone.</poem> ::''Henry Kendall'' :[[Royal Australian Historical Society|R.A.H.S.]]</blockquote>
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