Boiling Wells Lane is an anomaly, a country lane in the inner city, both rich with life and filled with ghosts. Curious Sunday walkers may catch tantalising glimpses of life, or remnants of former lives, through the tunnel and behind corrugated iron fencing; a roundhouse and amphitheatre, a mysterious Heath Robinson structure, a man-made watercourse with a duck house floating on it, a wall of tyres, derelict pig pens and impenetrable concrete blocks.

This book tells stories of the people and places that created the Lane, and the Boiling Well itself, a source of the water which for many years dominated the area. Photojournalist Carrie Hitchcock began to document the Lane in 2013 when its inhabitants turned out to be as interesting and anachronistic as their surroundings. This book is a testament to, and record of, these people and the unique environment they created.

Available from Better Food St Werburghs, Arnolfini Bookshop and Book Haus Wapping Wharf.