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Res.4.17 Male resident, 36 yrs, married, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 8 October 1961
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/4/17
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INTVEE grew up on a farm before moving with his family to Wardieburn at the age on nine. He left school at 14 and had various jobs in cinemas and at the North British Rubber Works. At 18 he joined the navy. He spent seven days leave in Philadelphia and remembers going round Gimball Brothers' Store which had one whole floor laid out with electric trains, twice the size of Woolworths in Princes Street. He now works at the Wireworks, he likes the job but not the people, his truck turned over...
Dates:
Other: 8 October 1961
Res.5.16 Male resident, 29 yrs, married, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 27 November 1961
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/5/16
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INTVEE left school at 14 when his father was still a prisoner of war, his first job was as a can boy on a building site making cups of tea, he then went to the shipyards but his apprenticeship was interrupted by National Service. INTVEE and his wife moved to Edinburgh at the time of the rivetters strike so there wasn’t a job available. He did some engineering then eventually got a job at Henry Robbs. He was laid off last year. He was offered a job in England but was told he would have to...
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Other: 27 November 1961