The Shipley House
Miles Shipley’s house is at 6, Holbein Mews, near Sloane Square in Chelsea. Sloane Square itself is quite up-market, but towards the river is predominantly a lower middle-class and working class area. The area houses tradesmen, shopkeepers and those with artistic flair (artists, painters and poets), giving the borough a bohemian air.
The Shipley house is in a terraced row of houses and is a two-storey brick building in need of repair:
You were greeted at the door by an old woman (you guess in her 70s) with a stooped frame, kind eyes and white hair. She led you up to the attic room where you met Miles Shipley, a middle-aged man, thin, with unkempt dark hair and dark bags under his eyes.
Shipley shows you his paintings, which have very disturbing subject matter:
