A walled town of the English Marches, 1380s, in miniature. It keeps its own clock; this is how to watch it, steer it and change its weather.
Borrowmere starts in a clean view with the drone tour on: a slow circuit of the snowy town, gliding in to its landmarks. Touch the scene, move the mouse or press a key and the drone hands the camera back to you.
Leave it alone for a minute and it starts flying again. Show controls (top left), or U, brings the panels back; Esc leaves any mode and restores them.
Everything you can do with the camera, on a mouse, a keyboard or a touchscreen.
Explore town has two tabs. Places flies the camera to the whole town, overhead, the great gate, the market square, the castle, the mill, St Winifred’s, the wall-walk, the river bridge and the fields and wood, then out to the wider world: Southbank and the wharves, the east ward, St Anselm’s abbey and the ridge mill.
Follow town life stays with the watchman, a cart, the barge or the crane. Watch the lighting, under Weather & light, follows the lamplighter on his round.
Weather & light holds the time of day, the day cycle, the weather, the seasons, the fires and the drawbridge. The day is a continuous 24 hours with a slower dawn; choose Sunrise · watch it unfold to watch the morning begin.
Weather: clear morning, sunrise, golden hour, night, passing rain, river mist, first snow with its gradual cover, and a gale. Seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter, or let the year turn. River mist fills the valley and leaves the castle floating above it.
Each moment sets the season, the weather, the hour and the camera together: Market day, Last light, Lantern hour and First snow. The first snow takes about two minutes at 1× to gather into a blanket.
Town plan is a live map. The ring shows where the camera is looking, and the amber marks are the watchman, a cart, the barge and the crane. Click anywhere on it to travel there.
Town journal shows the clock and what the town is doing. Town life follows the clock: carts queue at the gate at dawn, the market fills the square, the bell rings the hours, and the watch lights the braziers at dusk before the portcullis drops and the drawbridge rises at curfew. Tap a building for its note; Labels name the main ones.
The soundscape combines church bells, ravens, close-range duck calls, quiet conversations around groups, the river, rain, hooves, footsteps, the smithy, a lute, the drawbridge and the watch fires. Sounds soften with distance, and snow hushes the town.
Sound starts with your first click or tap, if the browser needs one. Y turns it on and off; the volume is under More controls, View & sound. It pauses with the town.
Each of these opens the real artwork, already set up: the same file you collect, driven by the controls above.
