Nudgee
When I was a child Nudgee was known for a few things. There was Nudgee College , a prestigious Catholic boys’ school. It’s actually at Boondall, a fair distance from where we lived. It has been there since 1891 and has beautiful old buildings. Peter won a scholarship to attend Nudgee as a ‘day boy’ when he attained the highest pass in Queensland by a child attending a Catholic school in the Scholarship exam which all school kids sat in Grade 8. (We started in Grade 1, so were around 13, and in our last year of primary school, when we got to Grade 8.) To get there by public transport would have involved a train and then a bus ride but there was a track through the bush and Peter rode his bike that way. Nudgee Cemetery has been a Catholic Cemetery since 1867 and is still operating. It’s just a few streets from where we grew up. My mother and father, Dad's mother, three of his brothers and three of his sisters are all buried ther...