Res.2.12 Female resident, late forties, married, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 11 April 1961
Scope and Contents
Topics include: Accommodation; Leith; health.
Accommodation: INTVEE lives on the first floor, her daughter sleeps on a bed-settee in the living room and her son has a bedroom to himself at which INTVER expresses surprise and suggests it should be the other way round. Mention of a rule relating to the back greens that prohibit children from entering to play.
INTVEE has her children's names down for Trinity and Wardie schools and will move if they get Leith. She grew up in Leith where she remembers everyone helping each other and leaving their keys in their doors, the women would play ropes or skipping in the streets "At that time, nobody had anything, none of us had anything to lose - we were all in the same boat, so everyone helped everybody else. During the last 10 or 12 years everybody has tried to get on and some of us have got on pretty well but things aren't the same, nobody can spare time or money for anybody else any more, once people start getting on they start they want all the material things and you start being envious and jealous and greedy".
Health: One of INTVEE's children contracted scurvey and was prescribed orange juice. She has had a bad experience with health visitors as they reprimanded her for not breast-feeding.
Dates
- Other: 11 April 1961
Creator
- From the Fonds: University of Edinburgh (Scottish University) (Organization)
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Full Extent
4 Sheets
Language of Materials
English
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