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Old Photographs Charlie The Hermit Sunnyside Cullen Scotland
Old photograph of Charlie the Hermit at Sunnyside in Cullen, Moray, Scotland. Reputed to be a deserter from the French navy he arrived at Sunnyside in 1920 and during the next thirteen years built his cottage in the cliff, living off his gardens and fishing off the coast. A vegetarian, he snared and sold rabbits and postcards of himself. In 1933 he was arrested for failing to register as an alien, taken to Banff Sheriff Court fined twenty shillings and told to register when he was then free to return to Sunnyside. Shortly after Charlie left for Leith, Edinburgh, to find passage on a ship to France. Unfortunately he landed up in an internment camp in the south of England and died there in 1937.
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