This narrow alley off Pool Valley, just back from the seafront, became a shrine to mod culture after the 1979 Who film Quadrophenia used it as a location. The walls are covered in graffiti tributes to the film, the band, and the 1964 Mods versus Rockers confrontations that inspired them — scooters, target symbols, and messages from fans who made the trip from around the world.
It's a small thing, easily walked past if you don't know to look for it, but for anyone with an interest in 1960s subculture or the film it's a surprisingly moving place. A certificate framing a scene from the movie is mounted on one wall. The alley has been here since the medieval town, which makes the mod murals feel like the latest layer of a place that has always belonged to whoever claims it.