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Res.3.8 Female resident, early middle age, married, waiting to be re-housed, male interviewer, May 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/3/8

Scope and Contents

INTVEE has lived on a prefab estate in Sighthill since 1946. She had heard that the corporation want to move the residents so she wrote to them eighteen months ago. She turned down a house in Muirhouse because this was too far away from her work in Sighthill. She now works in Leith and so has been Muirhouse and likes the look of the buildings going up near the skyscrapers, she thinks they might be the Scottish Special houses - two apartment. She was appalled at the high number of children in the area. She was offered another house in Muirhouse but again refused as, like the first, it was surrounded by children. The sanitary inspector chastised her for having some old lino in her garden which she hadn't got round to disposing of. INTVER phones the council to see if she is still on the list and reassures her that she is but she is worried she will have to take the next offer or stay in Sighthill until it is condemned. INTVR describes the estate as "on a gentle slope and fairly open but looking across to the Pentland Hills. Quite an attractive situation. The estate looked mixed; some houses neat and spruce, others pretty decrepit".

Dates

  • Other: May 1961

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4 Sheets

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