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Get inspired by the life of this fascinating woman on lived in a wood hut on stilts on Ventnor beach for 40 years
Olivia Parkes, aka Britannia the old lady of the sea, lived a precarious life off-grid in a wooden boathouse on stilts just west of Ventnor Beach for around 40 years from the 1920s to 1958.
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