Bromley House Library
The Bromley House Library (originally the Nottingham Subscription Library) is a subscription library in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1816 and moved to its present location at Bromley House on Angel Row in the centre of Nottingham in 1822. This building is grade II* listed and was built in 1752 as a town house for George Smith, grandson of the founder of Smith's Bank, the oldest known provincial bank in the United Kingdom.
In the 19th century the library had around a hundred subscribers, including George Green and Edward Bromhead. Historically, the first name on the list of subscribers was the Duke of Newcastle. In the first-floor 'Standfast Library' is a Meridian Line, dating from 1836 and used to set clocks to Noon local time in the days before Railway time or Greenwich Mean Time was introduced as the British standard.
As of January 2014[update] the library has over 1,200 members who pay an annual subscription. The library has a stock of over 40,000 books which includes a good selection of interest to local historians, and a wide selection of 19th and 20th century novels. It also contains more modern items such as audiobooks and DVDs. Items on loan are recorded using a ledger system where each member has their own page.
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