Contains correspondence to and from various sources including Bridlington Rural District Council (BRDC), George de Boer, East Riding of Yorkshire County Archivist, Holderness Rural District Council (HRDC), Ministry of Housing & Local Government, Ministry of Technology Hydraulics Research Station, Urban District Council of Filey, Catherine R. R. Harris, John Dossor, Crown Estate Commissioners, Lincoln & Hull Water Transport Company Ltd., Hydrographic Department (Admiralty), East Yorkshire Joint Advisory Committee for Coast Protection Works, Cleethorpes Borough Engineer's Office and Beverley Chief Constable's Office.

Topics include Report to Public Health Committee (1970), discovery of a bed of clinker, with map (1970), sandbank outside Bridlington Harbour (1966-1967), dredging off the Lincolnshire Coast (1967), off Spurn Head (1966) and at Withernsea (1965), study on Filey and Bridlington Bays (1966), Float Observation Survey (1965), erosion of Holderness Coast (1964), request for possible hydrographic survey carried out in Bridlington Bay (1964), East Coast Flood Warning System (1961-1962) and supporting research material including maps, tables and paper extracts.

Also Report from BRDC on proposed construction of improvised permeable sea groyne north of Barmston Drain (1970); newspaper cuttings (1966-1969); Report to Joint Finance and General Purposes Committee and Public Health Committee (BRDC) (Jan 1969); tables detailing coast erosion compiled by HRDC (1967); map of Bridlington showing low water spring tide (1966); pamphlet 'Eastern Yorkshire: The Geographical Background to Early Settlement' by George de Boer (1965); article from The Naturalist by George de Boer 'Spurn Point and its Predecessors' (1963); handwritten notes, possibly by Catherine R. R. Harris, relating to various district councils and recording activities carried out and to be done (1959).

Includes file 'Holderness Coast Erosion Local Authorities Figure' containing Bridlington Rural District Council (BRDC) Surveyor's report examining results of hydrometric survey (May 1970), invitation from East Yorkshire Joint Advisory Committee for Coast Protection Works to George de Boer to address Committee (Nov 1970), letter to George de Boer critiquing BRDC report, correspondence, data and plan related to coastal erosion at Easington and feasibility study for a proposed gas pipeline (1966, 1980), record of coast erosion measurements (1952-1970), study of coast erosion Bridlington Rural District (Apr 1969), letter from J. L. Smith to Councillor Faulkner concerning coast erosion and flooding (Apr 1996) and map of Bridlington (c.1978).