Category Archives: Fairbridge Tales

Dr Ron Sinclair DECEMBER 29 2018 – 10:00AM 2018 marks the 80th year since the Fairbridge Farm School was established six kilometres from Molong on the road to Orange. The first party of children arrived in March, 1938. For more than three … Continue reading →

Fairbridge has some good memories for me; a particular individual a Mr. Ted Wisell, Head Master of the Primary School at the Farm during the period 1950 to 1954 is enshrined in my heart as a person who introduced me … Continue reading →

On a beautiful autumn day in 2013, I came again to Fairbridge Farm at Molong,  This was a visit arranged by Neil my son, for me. I came out with the very  first party in 1938, I had a positive … Continue reading →

Michael writes on his time, Schooling at Molong and Fairbridge. By all accounts. “A bit of a lad.” Ed. In 1950, I arrived as a spotty urchin, from England into a strange land of sunshine, flies and some 200 other … Continue reading →

Michael has some interesting tales to tell, since he left the Fairbridge Farm at Molong. He writes. My departure from Fairbridge after an interim visit was a traumatic one for me, I had to get as far away from the … Continue reading →

This incident happened in the days when we all used to swim up at the Hudson dam at the Fairbridge Farm Molong. I do not remember it well being only 6 or 7 yrs of age at the time. We … Continue reading →

It is 50yrs this November 2012, that i came to Fairbridge Molong. Robert Sellars ( RIP ) was the only other Fairbridge boy in our party, I remember him well. Our escort was Mr Graham J Abbott. I vaguely remember … Continue reading →

This is a story,quite an unusual story, it is true. Jassy was a young girl of 13 when she came to Fairbridge Molong with her twin sister Primrose in 1955. She stayed and lived in the FKS Woods Principals house. … Continue reading →

Derek Moriarty recalls his time on the Dairy team at Fairbridge Farm with mixed emotions. Apart from the all too common physical beatings by Ted Begley, his recollections of his duties at the dairy are at times, quite humorous. Derek … Continue reading →