Bank of Australasia, 1 Queen Street, Murwillimbah, New South Wales

This photograph shows the exterior of the Bank of Australasia, Murwillimbah, New South Wales. Jack Bain worked for the Bank of Australasia and worked in many branches over his career from the 1920s to his retirement in 1966.

Former Uses: 1899 - original Australian Joint Stock Bank, burnt in 1907 fire;1946 Bank of Australasia & Residence (Joyce Martin); pre 1974 ANZ bank; Offices of the Banana Growers Federation. Currently used as lawyers' offices.

Murwillumbah is a town in far north-eastern New South Wales, Australia, in the Tweed Shire, on the Tweed River. Sitting on the south eastern foothills of the McPherson Range in the Tweed Volcano valley, Murwillumbah is 848 km north-east of Sydney, 13 km south of the Queensland border and 132 km south of Brisbane. (Wikipedia)

The first people to live in the area were Kalibai people. The name "Murwillumbah" may derive from an Indigenous Australian compound word meaning either "camping place" – from "Murrie", meaning people, "wolli", a camp, and "bah", a place – or alternatively from "murra", big, "willum", possum, and "bah", a place. Nearby Mount Warning and its attendant national park are known as Wollumbin, meaning "Cloud Catcher", in the Bundjalung language. (Wikipedia)