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Res.5.6 Married couple, c.40 yrs, corporation tenants, female interviewer, 6 November 1961
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/5/6
Scope and Contents
Topics discussed include: Family history; housing; employment; neighbours; education of children; child discipline.Family history: Wife was brought up in the Boswalls, husband was brought up in Leith, his mother was a widow and as soon as he was old enough he left school and worked in a butcher's shop, he has lots of relatives in Leith but wife says they don't have anyhing to do with them, only immediate relatives. Married during the war and lived with the wife's...
Dates:
Other: 6 November 1961
Res.1.16 Male resident, 67 yrs, married, corporation tenant, and his son, 20yrs, unmarried, male interviewer, 15 February 1961
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/1/16
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Accommodation: INTVEE lives with his wife and two children, 20 and 19 yrs, on the top floor of a three storey block in Granton. It is a three apartment house built in 1938. It could have more cupboard space, the heating arrangement is fine. The son sleeps in the living room. INTVER comments that the house has a more middle class appearance than other houses - a tile fireplace in the living room, decorated with contemporary paper, large carpet on the floor, large radiogramme and a television....
Dates:
Other: 15 February 1961