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✨ Join us this week for stories, songs, play, and lots of messy fun!
25/10/2026

✨ Join us this week for stories, songs, play, and lots of messy fun!

24/10/2026

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Event Announcement! 📣In partnership with Lower Burdekin Landcare Association, the Burdekin Library will be hosting a See...
22/10/2026

Event Announcement! 📣

In partnership with Lower Burdekin Landcare Association, the Burdekin Library will be hosting a Seed Saving Workshop to discuss our Seed Library, the importance of seed saving, as well as some hands-on demonstrations on how to save seeds from your own plants at home.

When: Friday 27th November at 1:30pm
Where: Ayr Library

Booking link in the comments!

I found this photo in our historical collection. Bank of North Queensland, 1908. And it stirred my interest. Where wa...
22/10/2026

I found this photo in our historical collection. Bank of North Queensland, 1908. And it stirred my interest. Where was it? How is it related to the Burdekin?
Looking further, I found the second picture, also Bank of North Queensland, dated 1911. It was obviously a different building. Perhaps they moved premises?
Then I found the photo Queen Street, 1919. There was the bank! But the name had changed. A bit of research told me that the Bank of North Queensland merged with the Royal Bank of Queensland in 1917 to become the Bank of Queensland, which was then acquired in 1922 by the National Bank of Australasia. Look at the saloon beside it – can you recognise that facade?
There was a postcard in the photo albums, titled National Bank under construction, pre-1936. This tells a story. I see the earlier bank being de-constructed, to allow the new rendered brick bank with its impressive Doric columns to be fitted within the gap.
Finally, another photo called Queen Street, Ayr 1936. Eerie how familiar it still is, 90 years on …

21/10/2026

Just kidding! This reel is fiction.
Our staff are always happy to help. If we don’t know, we’ll find out. 😇

It's easy to use the Burdekin Seed Library. Come check it out!
20/10/2026

It's easy to use the Burdekin Seed Library. Come check it out!

On tomorrow! Join us at Ayr Library, 2pm, to hear from retired Queensland Sergeant Dave Raymond.
18/10/2026

On tomorrow! Join us at Ayr Library, 2pm, to hear from retired Queensland Sergeant Dave Raymond.

Walk in, join in, everyone welcome! 🚶‍♀️🎈
16/10/2026

Walk in, join in, everyone welcome! 🚶‍♀️🎈

Want to hear more from retired Sgt Dave Raymond before our K9 Stories session next week? Check out the "I Catch Killers"...
14/10/2026

Want to hear more from retired Sgt Dave Raymond before our K9 Stories session next week? Check out the "I Catch Killers" podcast where he was a recent guest!

Link in the comments 👇

On tomorrow! Join us at Ayr Library from 10:45am for light refreshments, then listen to some fantastic local short stori...
13/10/2026

On tomorrow! Join us at Ayr Library from 10:45am for light refreshments, then listen to some fantastic local short stories and poetry.

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108 Graham Street
Ayr, QLD
4807

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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