John Monks
How long have you been in this studio?
We’ve been here 30 years. When we first came, it was an engineering workshop and nobody actually lived here. What is now the house downstairs was just a space to keep carts, it was like something out of the Edwardian period.
This is a desirable bit of London. Was it when you moved?
No, about five years prior to me coming, they were going to demolish the whole area as slum clearance. You can’t imagine it. People got together
