Bromley House Library Nottingham

Bromley House Library is one of Nottingham's best kept secrets

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00:00 [Music]

00:06 It looks like a building, doesn't it?

00:09 It starts with stairs and ducking under painted faces and wooden walls grained like skin.

00:16 But look, an exchange.

00:20 This place is no building, it's the keeper of worlds.

00:25 Where thick beams creak under the weight of jungles and planets and recovery ships,

00:31 and we come together to share what we've found.

00:35 Peel back the layers of discovery and lose days, weeks to a single plot.

00:44 Where pages are splayed out for inspection and all of us are crooked net

00:49 and peeking into realities other than our own.

00:54 The voices of sirens, flower pressed in ink, call passing guests towards them

01:00 and the others watch and sing in leathered crescendo as kings and queens march armies into checkered fields.

01:12 And a spiral staircase opens its mouth to the top floor where there is light and there are people.

01:24 Welcome, they say, to Bromley House Library.

01:30 [Music]

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