Di, just seen your lovely picture of Much Wenlock. It really took me back over 50 years, 'cause when I was an architectural student, we all had to pick an old building of which we were to do a 'measured drawing', and I chose that very building, the Guildhall. That was in March 1954, and I remember I stayed in a little pub just up the road from a Monday to Friday, and (with permission), went round the cellars with pencil, pad and measuring tape, in and out of all the ground and first floor rooms, and crawled all round the roof space, on to as much roof as I could do in reasonable safety, up a ladder to measure the heights all round, and up the church tower to see a bit more of the roof, sort the chimneys, ridges and valleys which you couldn't see from ground level. Then when we got home, we had to do presentation drawings - plans, elevations and sections.
It was a pig of a building to draw because, being very old and made of timber, it was well out of level and leaning left right and centre, which we were supposed to record with clinical accuracy.
I paid a couple of return visits while I was doing the drawings, but I don't think I've been back since.
Thanks for the reminder, Di.
Peter