James Alfred Steers

In 1943 Steers was commissioned to prepare a report on the coastline of England and Wales by the newly formed Ministry of Town and Country Planning.^[1] Over a period of eighteen months he visited 2751 miles of coastline, working with Dr E. C. 'Christie' Willatts, Head of the Maps Office for that ministry.^[3] In June 1944 he delivered an account of his research to a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society.^[4] He discussed a widely recognised expectation of an increase in the number of visitors to the coast. Thanks to the "holidays-with-pay" schemes, this would included access to the coastline by many people previously unable to make such visits. He predicted an increase of buildings offering expanded facilities to cope with the larger number of visitors.

• The Suffolk Shore: Yarmouth to Aldeburgh Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Volume XIX, part 1 (1925)
• Suffolk Coast: Orfordness Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History, Volume XIX, part 2 (1926)

• The Sea Coast. London, Collins, 1953. (New Naturalist series no.25 1st edition, 1953. ISBN 978-1114479869)