[4] In 1964 she was the only female senior manager at the Hydraulic Research Station where she had a team of ten people (all men).

That year she won the Telford Medal given annually by the Institution of Civil Engineers for the paper ‘Field and model investigations into the reasons for siltation in the Mersey estuary’, co-authored in 1963 with her colleague (William) Alan Price and published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.

[3] Kendrick was asked to lead the project,[2] and credited for having had the idea of protecting London following the tidal surge of 1953, which killed 307 people.

[2] For two hundred years Admirals would be appointed to the position of the Acting Conservator of the River Mersey.

In 1983 she gave the Verena Holmes Lecture of the Women's Engineering Society concerning her work, having joined the organisation in the early 1970s.