Down by the Sea is a 1956 novel by the British writer Walter Greenwood.Woods p.149 It is the final entry of a trilogy set in the fictional fishing port of Treeloe in Cornwall.Hopkins p.247 Durrall, the principal protagonist of the previous novel marries a woman and is able to prosper by opening his cottage as a tea house for tourists.
It was his penultimate published novel, followed by the Manchester-set Saturday Night at the Crown in 1959.
References
Bibliography Hopkins, Chris. Walter Greenwood's Love on the Dole: Novel, Play, Film. Oxford University Press, 2018. Woods, Tim. Who's Who of Twentieth Century Novelists. Routledge, 2008.