Lansdown Hall viewed from a flat opposite

We are about to submit an application for a grant to fund some further window renovations on Lansdown Hall.  Camilla thought it would be useful to show a view of the whole building now that the stone repairs have been completed and the new gutters and downpipes have been fitted.  I have been helping organise the restoration of the building since the town council bought it about five years ago to preserve it and make it  a community hall for the people of the town.

All the glass in the windows need some attention and we have installed a new technique of stainless steel frames to fit inside the stone window frames, which can not only hold double glazed units but also strengthen the actual frames.  These have been fitted to the five upper floor windows on the far side of the building. Now we want to do the same to these upper widows as well.

Camilla persuaded a local resident to let me have access to their second floor flat so that I could poke a camera out of their windows to get a broadside view across the road called Lansdown. So it was that this afternoon I met with Dave who kindly let me in and opened up the sash windows.  I had rather limited pace and only a 24mm lens so there was a rather limited viewpoint.

I took some pictures framed to get as much of the building in as possible and then decided to try to record two side by side images to merge into a panorama.  This blip is the result, and it is a bit of a bodge but will have to do.  The right hand tower seems to have been distorted rather a lot. I do wish I had a wider angle lens sometimes, as it would make these scenes much easier to record, and I do a lot of architectural photos for archive purposes and historical records.