A PHOTO in the Chifley Home and Education Centre in Busby Street shows the Bathurst boy and then prime minister arriving in England after the fastest trip to the mother country ever recorded by an Australian PM.
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It took him five days and 17 hours from Sydney.
It would have been a quicker trip between the two countries for Mark Harris, the mayor of the Cotswold District town of Cirencester, who visited Ben Chifley’s former home on Friday as part of a two-and-a-half day stay in Bathurst.
Cirencester, best known as the home of the Royal Agricultural University, is also the home of the ninth Earl and Countess Bathurst.
“I’ve been having a look around and really picking up on the connection between Cirencester and Bathurst,” Cr Harris said.
