Burdekin Library

Burdekin Library is a contributor to Picture Queensland.

A half hour drive south of Townsville, you enter the sugar and mango plantations of the Burdekin Shire. The Burdekin Shire Library Service consists of two libraries, the Burdekin Library (Ayr) and the Home Hill Branch Library.

The Libraries' Local History Collection includes:

• microfilm copies of local newspapers (Ayr Advocate, Home Hill Observer and Port Dennison Times);
• shipping records on microfiche;
• local historic photographic collection of approximately 1,200 images;
• minute books from local organisations; and
• local topographical maps.

Contact details:

Burdekin Library
108 Graham Street
Ayr 4807
Home Hill Branch Library
77 Ninth Avenue
Home Hill 4806
phone +61 (07) 4783 9971
fax +61 (07) 4783 9997
email ayr.library@burdekin.qld.gov.au
web http://www.burdekin.qld.gov.au/services/cultural/burdekinlibrary/


Railway workers on a railway trolley, BurdekinUnknown photographer
Railway workers on a railway trolley, Burdekin
b&w photographic print
Burdekin Library
Image number: bur00270