Res.3.12 Female resident, age unknown, married, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 19 May 1961

Accommodation: INTVEE is a married woman with children. She has never liked the district and doesn't like the shape of the rooms in the house which are long and narrow as opposed to square. Each family is allotted a day for using the back green and she was upset if neighbours who weren't using it wouldn't let her have the extra time. The bedroom suite, sideboard-cum-cocktail cabinet and television bought on hire purchase. INTVER notes that she had already made a pre-judgement about the social category of the family owing to the "dirty and unkept patch of garden in the front, the broken milk bottle at the door, the drawn curtains at ten in the morning". She notes that this judgement was right in some ways but also wrong if such a pre-judgement implied low intelligence or apathy.

Family life: Her husband is unsociable and jealous which contributes to her isolation. She enjoys going back to Leith where there are people who knew her before she was married. She has children from a previous marriage and says her husband treats them differently which makes her irritable and in turn treat his children badly. The whole family suffer verbal and physical violence at the hands of her husband although he burst into tears when she tried to leave. She attributes much of the violence to lack of sexual relations.