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Leo WalmsleyLeo Walmsley was an English writer. He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley, West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of North Yorkshire. During World War I he served with the Royal Flying Corps in East Africa, was mentioned in dispatches four times and was awarded the Military Cross. He died in Fowey, Cornwall on 8 June, 1966. Many of his books are mainly autobiographical, the best known are his Bramblewick trilogy set in Robin Hood's Bay - Three Fevers, Phantom Lobster and Sally Lunn, the first of which was filmed as Turn of the Tide. Bibliography - 1920 - Flying and Sport in East Africa
- 1921 - The Silver Blimp
- 1923 - The Lure of Thunder Island
- 1926 - The Green Rocket
- 1926 - Toro of the Little People
- 1932 - Three Fevers
- 1933 - Phantom Lobster
- 1935 - Foreigners
- 1937 - Sally Lunn
- 1939 - Love in the Sun
- 1941 - Fishermen at War
- 1942 - British Ports and Harbours
- 1944 - So Many Loves (autobiography)
- 1948 - Master Mariner
- 1951 - Lancashire and Yorkshire
- 1952 - Invisible Cargo
- 1954 - The Golden Waterwheel
- 1957 - The Happy Ending
- 1959 - Sound of the Sea
- 1963 - Paradise Creek
- 1965 - Angler's Moon
Biographies - 1991 - The Honey Gatherers - Peter J. Woods
- 1995 - Autumn Gold - Stephanie Walmsley (his widow)
- 2001 - Shells and Bright Stones - Nona Stead (ed)
External links The Walmsley Society Walmsley
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