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Chifley Home & Education Centre

Locality: Bathurst, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6338 2850

Address: 10 Busby Street 2795 Bathurst, NSW, Australia

Website: https://museumsbathurst.com.au/chifley-home-and-education-centre

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25.01.2022 The Chifleys home is modest Bathurst cottage The Australian Womans Weekly, July 28,1945 #visitbathurst #museumsbathurst #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #benchifley #museums #australianprimeminister #bathurstnsw

25.01.2022 #OnThisDay in 1945, Ben Chifley became Australia's 16th PM after being elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, following the death of John Curtin earlier ...in July. Chifley was responsible for accelerating post-war reconstruction and, under his leadership, the Commonwealth government became a signatory to the charter setting up the United Nations. Chifley upheld office at the 1946 elections, but lost to Robert Menzies’ Liberal-Country Party coalition in 1949. Learn more about Chifley: https://bit.ly/2OljgHM Ben Chifley 1940. Courtesy of The Sun Feature Bureau.

23.01.2022 Tea and toast at Number 10. This 1940s Hotpoint brand electric toaster in the pantry of Chifley Home (No 10 Busby Street Bathurst) was used by Ben Chifley in his parliamentary office in Canberra when he snacked on tea and toast, often in place of a proper meal. The original handmade crochet teacosy is found in the kitchen of the humble 1940s home of Australias 16th Prime Minister. @museums_bathurst ... #museumsbathurst #visitbathurst #visitnsw #bathurstnsw #bathurst2795 #benchifley #chifleyhome #tea #teacosy #1940s #1940shouse #museums #bathurstmuseum #australianprimeminister #australianhistory See more

23.01.2022 Treasures from the collection - inscriptions found in the books in Chifley Home. Isabella Bryce (1853-1945) was the mother of Elizabeth McKenzie (1886 -1962). Originally from Carstairs in Lanarkshire in Scotland, Isabella arrived in Bathurst in 1885 with her husband George McKenzie (1857-1931) who was an engine driver. Born in their Logan Street home, their daughter Elizabeth (Lizzie or Liz) married Joseph Benedict Chifley in 1914. Ben and Elizabeth moved directly across th...e lane to their Busby Street home where they remained for the rest of their lives. The home is a time capsule of the 1940s and contains a collection of personal and domestic items belonging to the Chifleys. #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #museumsbathurst #visitbathurst #visitnsw #benchifley

21.01.2022 Chifley Home, built in the 1880s, is in an area of South Bathurst called Milltown. After the NSW railway was connected to Bathurst in 1876 the area became home to railway workers and their families. The railway precinct had its own school and police station as well as shops and hotels. #visitbathurst #museumsbathurst #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #benchifley #museums #australianprimeminister #bathurstnsw

21.01.2022 From the collection at Chifley Home Judging by his bookshelf, Ben Chifley was a fan of the ‘whodunnit’. This 1946 crime fiction novel is one of many on Ben Chifley’s bookshelf. ... #visitbathurst #museumsbathurst #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #benchifley #museums #australianprimeminister #bathurstnsw

20.01.2022 Stories of the Collection #chifley #chifleyhome #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #benchifley #visitbathurst #museumsbathurst

20.01.2022 #OnThisDay in 1945, Ben Chifley became Australias 16th PM after being elected leader of the Australian Labor Party, following the death of John Curtin earlier ...in July. Chifley was responsible for accelerating post-war reconstruction and, under his leadership, the Commonwealth government became a signatory to the charter setting up the United Nations. Chifley upheld office at the 1946 elections, but lost to Robert Menzies Liberal-Country Party coalition in 1949. Learn more about Chifley: https://bit.ly/2OljgHM Ben Chifley 1940. Courtesy of The Sun Feature Bureau.

19.01.2022 The Chifley’s home is modest Bathurst cottage The Australian Woman’s Weekly, July 28,1945 #visitbathurst #museumsbathurst #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #benchifley #museums #australianprimeminister #bathurstnsw

18.01.2022 Ben at Home This interview with an actor celebrates the 75th anniversary of Ben Chifley becoming Australias 16th Prime Minister. Museums Bathurst has been working with the Bathurst Visitor Information Centre, talented local actors, local historian Sam Malloy and Ribbon Gang Advertising Agency to bring the Chifley story to life. This episode of Ben at Home is the first in a series about Ben and Elizabeth Chifley.... Written by David Hay, we present local man Vince Melton as Chif telling the story. Sit back and enjoy the presentation. Visit Bathurst NSW

15.01.2022 Born on this day, 22 September 1885, in Bathurst Joseph Benedict Chifley was Australia’s 16th Prime Minister.

15.01.2022 Make do and mend The shelves in the pantry and kitchen of Chifley home are lined with off cuts of Lino from the floors throughout the home. #visitbathurst #museumsbathurst #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #benchifley #museums #australianprimeminister #bathurstnsw

12.01.2022 75th Anniversary of Victory in the Pacific Fellow citizens the war is over Huddled around the wireless at 9 am on Wednesday 15 August 1945 Australia heard Ben Chifley announce the long awaited words. ... Let us remember those who’s lives were given that we may enjoy this glorious moment and may look forward to a peace which they have won for us. Courtesy of the Australian War Memorial, 2015 #visitbathurst #museumsbathurst #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #benchifley #museums #australianprimeminister #bathurstnsw https://youtu.be/XTwglaNGkKc

11.01.2022 Chifley Home is full of Elizabeth Chifley’s needlework including home decor items like doilies and table runners. Lace crochet was popular in the 1930s and was made made using cotton thread and very small crochet hook. #visitbathurst #museumbathurst #museums #bathurstnsw #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre ... #museums #benchifley #chifley #australianprimeministers See more

10.01.2022 Welcome to the Chifley Home and Education Centre Facebook page. For 37 years, number 10 Busby Street, Bathurst was the home of Prime Minister Ben Chifley and his wife Elizabeth. The Chifley Home and Education Centre provides a glimpse into how the Chifleys lived, and offers an experience of everyday life in the 1940s. It is a home that saw the hardships of the Great Depression, followed by wartime rationing and restrictions. It was the home that Ben Chifley returned as the ...Chifley government led Australias post war recovery. Chifley Home and Education Centre will remain closed in the short term to comply with COVID-19 social distancing requirements. This page has been created to tell the story of the Home and residents, Ben and Elizabeth Chifley.

09.01.2022 In the wake of the storm ALP cinema advertisement for the 1946 federal election. Courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archives ... #museumsbathurst #bathurstnsw #visitbathurst Click this link to see the advertisement https://bit.ly/3dYUDvK

06.01.2022 Sometimes the walls (or in this case the floor) really can talk. Recent conservation work at Chifley Home has revealed this fragment of newspaper under the Lino. Dated 16 April 1914 it gives an approximate date that the Lino may have been laid down. At this time the home was owned by Elizabeth’s father George McKenzie. Ben and Elizabeth moved into the house after they were married on 16 April 1914. ... #museumsbathurst #chifleyhomeandeducationcentre #visitbathurst

06.01.2022 #OnThisDay 13 July 1945 Ben Chifley became Prime Minister of Australia, taking office after John Curtin died earlier in the month. Chifley was born and raised i...n Bathurst and worked on the railways for many years. His digitised Personal Railway History Cards is available to view in Collection Search. Two of the cards list his work history while a third is a record of engine failures and casualties and the delay caused. The cards show that Joseph Benedict Chifley born in 1885 and started working for the railways as a "shop-boy" in 1903. Other positions listed are cleaner, oiler and fireman before becoming a driver in 1913. A stamp dated 14 Aug 1917 states he was dismissed for taking part in the 1917 General Strike. He retired from the railways in 1928. Chifley was Prime Minister until 19 December 1949. https://www.records.nsw.gov.au//mag/onthisday/13-july-1945

03.01.2022 Ben Chifley was rarely seen without his pipe. In the series Prime Ministers National Treasures, Warren Brown talks about Ben Chifleys pipe and explains his role in rebuilding of the nation after WWII. Warren Brown reveals the emotional lives of 12 Australian Prime Ministers through 12 objects they used every day or otherwise adored. For Ben Chifley, its his pipe. Courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archives. ... #museumsbathurst