Leo Walmsley(1892-1966)

Despite arriving in Robin Hoods bay when he was only two, he was branded as a foreigner and suffered from the taunts of the local boys. His father was an artist and made a living painting local scenes which is now highly collectable. Brought up in the small fishing community of Robin Hood's Bay, he was a keen observer of the lives of two rival fishing families: the Storms and the Dukes, who became the Fosdykes and the Lunns in his Bramblewick stories which vividly depict the decline of the inshore fishing industry and the impact of modern inventions. It wasn't until his second marriage at the age of 40, that he published the Bramblewick quartet: Three Fevers, Phantom Lobster, Sally Lunn and Foreigners, the first of which was filmed as Turn of the Tide.