Fairbridge Children’s Park, Designed by Clouston
Fairbridge Children’s Park tells a story through landscape design of almost 1000 forced child migrants sent from Britain to Molong in regional NSW between 1938 and 1973. The reality of life at Fairbridge Farm School proved very different to promises made before setting sail. The children experienced hardship, betrayal and limited opportunity. In recent years the Prime Ministers of Australia and Great Britain, and the Premier of NSW, have offered apologies in their Parliaments, recognising the suffering of so many under the Fairbridge scheme. Clouston landscape architects have designed an experience that tells the childrens’ story through landscape, at a park and highway rest stop adjacent to the original farm site. The park was officially opened by senior Old Fairbridgians in March 2020. Leonard Lynch, Clouston Associates’ Founding Director, says, …