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A
Public
Memory Project
by
Chris Lee
About
History
Places
Essex
Evans
Memorial
Essex
Evans
Grave
Groom
Memorial
Mothers
Memorial
Rudd
Memorial
Rudd
Selection
Toowoomba
Ladies Literary Society
Display
Writers
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Places
of Literary Significance
I’d like to have a Tabletop, a Tabletop of words, and be remembered for what I built, for how I climbed and how I was buried there to be found one day. To be found by picknickers would do. ‘When I Returned, Never having Left,’ David Rowbotham
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Rudd
Memorial
The
Rudd Memorial marks the site of the slab hut in which Arthur Hoey
Davis, 'Steele Rudd', was born on November
14, 1868. The memorial was organised by members of the Toowoomba
Ladies Literary Society and funds were raised by a national
wide appeal.
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was opened in 1950 by the then President of the society Mrs Margaret
Curran who said that the Society began the memorial movement because
it "'did not choose that the land from which he sprung, should
be shamed' by utter forgetfulness". |
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An
annual pilgrimage to the site was conducted by the Ladies
Literary Society until late in the twentieth century.
The
site can be found fronting the Drayton State School on the Drayton road
south west of Toowoomba.
Submissions
and suggestions for places not yet included can be sent to leec@usq.edu.au
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