St Joseph’s Nudgee College was opened in 1891 when the boarding school was transferred from the College at Gregory Terrace. The location was selected by Brother Patrick Ambrose Treacy, founder of the Australian Province of the Christian Brothers, at the request of the Archbishop of Brisbane at the time, Robert Dunne. Brother D. F. Bodkin was appointed first Headmaster. In 1938, Nudgee Junior College was opened at a separate campus in Indooroopilly.
Geographic Description 1: Outside The Green Belt
Geographic Description 2: Cabbage Tree Creek (Tighgum); Nundah Creek; Boondall Wetlands
Geographic Description 3: Flood Plains (Major); Plains (unflooded)
Citations
Boland, T. P. (Thomas Patrick). Nudgee 1891-1991: St Joseph’s College, Nudgee, Boolarong Publications with Nudgee College, Boondall, Brisbane, 1991.
Kerby, Martin C. Nudgee: A Life: A History of St Joseph’s Nudgee College, St Joseph’s Nudgee College, Boondall, Qld, 2014.
Unnamed. Golden Jubilee of St. Joseph’s College, Nudgee, 1891-1941, Strand Press, Brisbane Qld, 1941.
Image Citations
St Joseph’s College, Nudgee. Photographer: Kgbo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64022991]