The upstairs reading room at Bristol Central Library is also a genuine marvel that I get a little frisson of joy every time I enter
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One of the best bookshops I've ever visited at the gradel I listed former Wool Exchange, Bradford - Built in the spirit of the great Flemish cloth halls — architecture not merely as utility, but as something capable of raising the human spirit.