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Calrossy was founded in 1919 by a group of parishioners from
St John's Parish Church. Tamworth, led by the vicar, Canon
Rupert Fairbrother. It began with just seventeen students.
Known originally as the Tamworth Church of England Girls'
School, it first occupied a site close to the church in East
Tamworth. Lessons were held in the church hall and the boarding
house was an old building on the corner of Brisbane and Carthage
Streets.
In 1923, the school moved to its present site in Brisbane
Street, a property formerly owned by Mr John Patterson. His
fine old home, the centrepiece of the new school was named
Calrossy after the family property in Scotland.
The school eventually adopted the name in 1969. It remained
a parish school until 1936 when it was taken over by the Diocese
of Armidale and administered by the diocese in a similar way
to its other schools, The Armidale School and the New England
Girls' School.
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