A once thriving fishing village along the south coast of England was wiped out by a savage storm but one stubborn woman refused to leave.
Remarkably all 79 inhabitants of Hallsands in Devon escaped and survived, including a one-week old baby who was carried to safety in a fisherman's basket.
The houses were not so lucky though with 37 of them, plus the local shop and pub, washed away in the January, 1917 storm that lasted four days.
Only one home remained intact - the last cottage on the hill called Sea View and owned by the Prettejohn family.
Elizabeth Prettejohn was 33 when the storm hit.
But she and her family returned to their home once it was safe, reports DevonLive, and Elizabeth remained steadfast there until her death 47 years later in 1964, aged 80.
She commented not long before she died: "I have all my memories here, but it's no good sitting down moping.
"It was the dockyard that took all our beach. It blew for four days and four nights.
"The sea was like mountains. I prayed god that the wind would stop....
"Once I thought of moving to Dartmouth, but this is where I belong with my memories."
Elizabeth Ann Prettejohn was born in the The London Inn (the pub washed away) in Hallsands where he parents lived as the landlords.
She was one of the many village women who fished and rowed out to sea alongside the men.
Elizabeth would wade out to the boats with other women carrying their husbands on their backs to stop the men's feet from being wet before the day's work ahead.
Not long after the storm, one brave teenage fisherwoman, Ella Trout, rescued nine sailors on her boat after they had hit a German naval mine.
Ella was only out crab-fishing with her 10-year-old cousin while her father William was too ill to fish.
She was awarded an Order of the British Empire medal for her efforts.
The Trout family was later compensated for the loss of their cottage in the storm and Ella and her sisters used the money to build Trout's Hotel in Hallsands, which they ran until 1959.
An unpublished report revealed how the village's inhabitants were initially cheated out of compensation despite recommendations for it by an independent inspector.
It took a reported seven years for any compensation to be paid - although some thought that they did not receive enough.
Many of the newly homeless people were either taken in by friends and family living nearby or they camped.
However, a lot of them also moved to Beesands village a few miles north.
Elizabeth Prettejohn stayed where she was, though.
Astonishing old British Pathé news footage from 1960 shows an ageing Elizabeth living among the abandoned village - feeding her flock of hens and tugging on a crabbing line in the sea.
The reports describes the place as: "A once proud fishing village... now a weird fantasy world of ruins - and they say ghosts."
During the 1890s, constant dredging and shingle removal off Hallsands had slowly lowered the beach level and left the village exposed to the harshness of Mother Nature.
Up to 1,600 tonnes of material was removed daily to support the expansion of a naval dockyard 30 miles away in Keyham in Plymouth.
All this continued, despite the villagers' protests, until the dredging licence was revoked in 1902.
However, by then the long-term damage had been done and the village would suffer for it 16 years later.
After Elizabeth's parents died, she lived a solitary life in the village's ruins until her death.
Sea View was eventually bought and revamped into a summer holiday home.
It was possible to walk among the ghostly remains of Hallsands until a landslide in 2012 blocked off the road leading down to it.
Now, only a viewing platform is available for tourists to peer down at the village that was swept away all those years ago.
