Dorothy Koomson - I Know What You’ve Done

Location: Marine Parade to Medeira Drive steps

Transcript: There are these little nooks in Brighton, places that most people don’t know about where you can meet up and no one will see you. Technically, it shouldn’t be an issue, me meeting up with these people, but right now, everything is a potential problem, everything could be seen, pounced upon and dissected in a way that will reveal things that really do need to be kept hidden. Along from the Pier, in the opposite direction to Hove and Worthing, there are several of these nook-type places that feel secluded and safe. One of my business partners, Hollie, has lived in Brighton and Hove her whole life and it was she who suggested we meet here. You can only really access this area from the street – you have to walk along the road from the Pier and the Aquarium, then after a few hundred metres, you take the steep, sheer stone steps to get down onto the pebbles. Further back, on the other side of the Pier, this area under the steps has been claimed by shops, playground areas and other community spaces; here that has not happened. Here it is bleak; litter has built up and seagulls often gather to feast on it. The pebbles are especially bumpy underfoot and I feel completely ridiculous standing here in my running gear, waiting for the others to arrive.