Between 2003 and 2007 photographer and visual anthropologist Janine Wiedel documented the final years of London's longest-running squat. St Agnes Place—a quiet South London back street between Kennington and Brixton—was occupied for over thirty-five years by a wide range of people and groups who established a semi-autonomous community. Originally built for the servants of Buckingham Palace and made up of two rows of Victorian terraced houses, the street was bought by Lambeth Council in the 1960s to extend Kennington Park; when that plan stalled, the boarded-up houses were taken over from 1969 onwards, first by Rastafarians anchoring their community culturally and then by anti-capitalist activists, environmentalists, travellers and artists. Bob Marley once played football here. In Wiedel's book her photographs are combined with the stories of those who inhabited what she calls 'a living monument to the lives and histories that formed it', reflecting the hopes, dreams and difficulties of its inhabitants and their often fraught relationships to society at large—right up to the contested eviction and demolition.