Springbourne Library

We've got some great books out for display this month from some prizewinning authors including:

- Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet
- Piranese by Susanna Clarke
- Gliff by Ali Smith
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
- The Island Of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak,
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flannagan

and many more including a whole load of great crime fiction! Which ones have you read??? 📖😍

🎨✨ Join us every Monday term time for the Make and Do After School Club at Springbourne Library! 📚🎉Get over the Monday blues with some creativity, arts, crafts, and play from 3:30 to 4:30 PM. See you there for some fun and imagination!

No two things go so well hand in hand like knitting and nattering!

Knit & Natter is back at Springbourne Library every Thurs 10.30am to 12.00pm!

Make new friends, chat, and work on your knitting projects. Crochet and sewing welcome too!
We look forward to seeing you there!

This is a free event
Teas and coffees are available from only £1.10

If you're into turnips, witches, or 17th-century probate inventories, you'll be well at home at Springbourne Library on Saturday 27th June, when local historian Alex McKinstry will be giving a talk on the history of Iford. It isn't widely known that there are records of a bridge at Iford from as far back as 1162; that the deeds of the pub date back to 1709; and that a Georgian mansion house once stood on the site of Bridle Crescent - the latter shown here in aerial view shortly after it was laid out in 1936. William Windham Farr, who owned the property, was responsible for selling "the Springbourne Estate" to developers in the 1860s; Windham Road is named after him. Iford Farm was later purchased (1898) by the Cooper-Dean family, whose realisation of the estate from 1923 onwards netted the family the approximate equivalent of £40 million. All will be elaborated upon - with entertaining autobiographical divulgences - at Springbourne Library on Saturday 27th June at 11 am. Free talk, followed by free Q & A session, all welcome.

Are you looking for something to do this weekend? Why not see how many Story Doors you can find?

24 local schools have each created an amazing wooden Story Door based on their favourite books, to help us celebrate the National Year Of Reading.

Download a trail map here..
https://www.bcpcouncil.gov.uk/libraries/national-year-of-reading-2026/story-doors-trail..or pop into any branch and pick up a copy. It's running until September.

Let us know which ones you've found. 😊

Interested in local history? Discover the rich past of Iford, Dorset with a free talk by local historian Alex Mckinstry on Saturday, 27th June from 11am at Springbourne Library. All welcome!