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FJ the man and FJ the business

Explore key elements of the history of Fletcher Jones, the man and Fletcher Jones, the business through the stories in the timeline below.

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Cornish miners, Bendigo, 1912. Photo: Jones Family Collection

The Army 1915-1917

FJ served as a private from 1915-1917 during WW1. Photo: Jones Family Collection

The Hawker. Mending Belts & Sawing Wood.

The FJ travelling drapery emporium! 1922. Photo: Jones Family Collection

Rena Jones with her dog Digger, 1920's. Photo: Jones Family Collection

Time to settle down!

1924 - The first stores leased by FJ in northern Liebig St. Photo: Jones Family Collection

The Man's Shop Opens

Man's Shop 1930's. Photo: Jones Family Collection

FJ travels to Japan

Fletcher Jones at Kawaga School, Japan 1936

Nothing but Trousers

Before Pleasant Hill. FJ Man's Shop Liebig and Koroit St Warrnambool 1946. The workrooms were upstairs. Photo: Jones Family Collection

FJ's Opens Collins St. Store, 1946

The amazing block long queues outside the FJ Collins St store in 1946. Photo: Jones Family Collection.

FJ in 1947. Photo: Jones Family Collection

A rubbish dump in a quarry

FJ Pleasant Hill site not long after purchase in 1947. The quarry can be seen in the right of the photo. Photo: Jones Family Collection.

Pleasant Hill opens

Opening of Pleasant Hill Factory 1948. Photo: Jones Family Collection

A garden takes shape

The Fletcher Jones gardens at the height of their glory in the early 70s. Photo: Jones Family Collection

Dry Cleaning, Reforming and Repairs

Dry Cleaning and Aftersales exterior, Pleasant Hill 1953. Photo: Ralph Illidge

The 1956 Olympics and the FJ Skirt.

Photo:Warrnambool Standard

FJ opens factory in Brunswick

Paul Lasica and FJ inside the Brunswick building in 1959. Photo: Jones Family Collection

Laboratory in the factory

Sue Peterson in the FJ Laboratory in 1974. Photo: Jones Family Collection

Staff Credit Society formed

Do You Know or Daily Staff Bulletin, 1972. Loaned by Doug Maloney.

FJ marries Aida Wells 1971

Fletcher Jones with his second wife, Aida, by his side during a hospital stay near the end of FJ's life. Photo shared by Marg O'Connor

Staff own over 70%

Share Certificate

Mt Gambier Factory opens

Fletcher Jones and Dick Tongue planting a tree at the Mt Gambier factory, 1972. Photo: Jones Family Collection

First IBM computer installed

The 'Bunker' or computer room under Pleasant Hill. There are tunnels and rooms that were excavated by staff through the sandstone to provide additional space. Photo: Jones Family Collection

FJ receives knighthood

Photo: Jones Family Collection

Introduction of Automated Cutting

David Jones with the new computer driven cloth cutter in 1975. Photo: Jones Family Collection

Sir Fletcher resigns

Sir Fletcher working on his autobiography, 1975. Photo: Jones Family Collection

David Jones. Photo: Jones Family Collection

Sir Fletcher dies

The grave of Rena Jones and Sir Fletcher Jones in the Warrnambool cemetery. Photo: Julie Eagles

Troubled times & a $2.5million loan

David Jones (left) at launch of Signature concept at Melbourne Zoo Pavilion. Photo: Jones Family Collection

The end of protectionism

Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Photo:Google commons

April 1992 -Council buys FJ Factory

Headline Warrnambool Standard April 28, 1992. Shared by Lawson Ryan

December 1992 -FJs is sold

Newspaper cutting

FJ company sold again

FJ SIgn

Warrnambool Standard Saturday November 26, 2005, page 5.

Death and Administrators

Detail Sydney Morning Herald December 16, 2011. Shared by John Ballard

Fletcher Jones Australia re-launched