Fairbridge Pinjarra Time Line
| Year | Event |
| 1885 | Kingsley Fairbridge born in Grahamstown, South Africa |
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1909 |
Formation of the Child Emigration Society, Oxford, England |
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1912 |
Kingsley and Ruby Fairbridge arrive in Pinjarra and start the first Fairbridge Farm School on 160 acres located south of Pinjarra |
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1913 |
January, the first 13 boys arrive at Fairbridge Farm School July, second party of 22 boys arrive |
| 1914 | First Mandurah summer camp |
| 1914 | to 1918 The First World War. British child migration deferred |
| 1919 | Kingsley & Ruby Fairbridge and family return to England on a promotional trip |
| 1920 | 3,100 acres bought from the Estate of Wm Paterson for a new farm site on the South Dandalup River |
| 1921 | First five cottages completed: Belfast, Clive, Shakespeare, Wolfe and Warren Hastings |
| 1921 | British child migration recommenced |
| 1921 | First party to include girls arrive |
| 1921 | Office/Gatehouse Exeter constructed (later Assistant Principal's residence) |
| 1921 | Kitchen and store are completed |
| 1922 | Headmaster's house, later known as Fairbridge House completed - a pise structure (rammed earth) |
| 1922 | Four classrooms constructed |
| 1923 |
Eight more cottages completed - Glasgow, Jenner, Henry Hudson, Raleigh, Darwin, Lister, Nelson and Isaac Newton |
| 1924 | Kingsley Fairbridge dies - midnight Saturday 19 July |
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1927 |
Seven more cottages built - Cook, Rhodes, Livingstone, Kitchener, Lawley, Haig and Forrest |
| 1927 | Duke and Duchess of York visit Fairbridge (the Duke later became King George VI) |
| 1928 | Principal's residence (Heath House) and Dairyman's house (Oxford) constructed |
| 1928 | Manual Training Workshop constructed |
| 1928 | Two more classrooms constructed |
| 1930 | Generous gift received from the late Mr. Thomas Wall to build a Chapel |
| 1930 | Hospital constructed - Nightingale |
| 1931 | Church of the Holy Innocents officially dedicated by the Bishop of Bunbury |
| 1931 | Chief Scout (Lord Baden-Powell), Chief Guide (Lady Baden-Powell) and Governor (Sir William Campion) visit |
| 1932 | Middlemore cottage completed |
| 1933 | Old Fairbridgians Clubhouse completed |
| 1933 | Cement block garage and other technical buildings built |
| 1934 | Weir constructed across the river to provide a safe swimming pool |
| 1934 | Duke of Gloucester visits Fairbridge |
| 1934 | Office building constructed |
| 1935 | Arthur Scratton Memorial residential building with clock tower completed for senior boys |
| 1935 | Domestic Science building constructed |
| 1935 | Saumarez and Evelyn cottages constructed for senior girls |
| 1938 | Laundry, Power House, Staff Dining room, kitchen and quarters constructed |
| 1939 | to 1945 - World War 2. British child migration deferred |
| 1939 | to 1945 - Many Old Fairbridgians join the services - Army, Air Force, Navy Home Forces, Women's Land Army |
| 1942 | Guildford Grammar School boys in residence |
| 1943 | Site used to train young women as farm hands - Women's Land Army |
| 1945 | Dutch refugee children housed until reunited with their families in 1946 |
| 1948 | Renovations to site buildings begin |
| 1949 | Child migration recommenced. First migrant children arrive after the war |
| 1950 | School buildings renovated |
| 1954 | Renovations to 18 cottages completed |
| 1956 | Fairbridge Society decides to take children with one parent, and families with many children |
| 1961 | Big Brother Movement began to utilise Fairbridge |
| 1961 | Plans for new swimming pool, oval and sports pavilion completed |
| 1963 | Memorial Colonnade constructed at the entrance to the village |
| 1964 | Cottages full |
| 1964 | Queen Mother visits Fairbridge |
| 1966 | Noah's Ark pavilion erected |
| 1971 | Warren Hastings destroyed by fire |
| 1979 | Prince Charles visits Fairbridge |
| 1981 | Kingsley Fairbridge Farm School closed |
| 1983 | WA Board of Fairbridge Society London becomes incorporated in its own right as Fairbridge Western Australia Inc |
| 1983 | Alcoa buys the site from Fairbridge Society London |
| 1983 | Alcoa sells the buildings and infrastructure back to Fairbridge WA Inc for $1 and enters into a 94 year peppercorn lease for the site the buildings are constructed on |
| 1983 | Alcoa erects a memorial over Kingsley Fairbridge's grave |
| 1984 | Freemasons agree to underwrite the Board of Fairbridge Western Australia Inc |
| 1996 | First Old Fairbridgians Memorial Wall constructed |
| 1998 | Fairbridge Farm School entered on the Heritage Council of WA Register of Heritage Places |
| 2006 | Elizabeth cottage officially opened by descendents of Kingsley & Ruby Fairbridge. |
A History of Fairbridge Farm School, Pinjarra, Western Australia
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