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Res.3.13 Female resident, c.40 yrs, married, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 5 June 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/3/13

Scope and Contents

INTVEE was first occupier of her flat, moving in in 1947. There was nothing to the west of her block, unmade road, no shops, no school. When asked about settling in she is quoted as saying "Oh I cried every night for weeks", but INTVER says the only reasons she gives for this is being pregnant at the time and the handles on the doors falling off. Only one of the families apart from her own is still there out of the original six. Two went back to the areas they came from. She says the other five women on the stair were pally from the start and thought her snobbish for not joining in but she was unwell with her pregnancy. She didn't like them anyway, they were noisy and kept falling out. She says there are real slum types over in Pilton - always fighting, drunkenness and broken windows. INTVER comments that she thinks there is a lack of trust between INTVEE and her three year old child. Her prospective son-in-law had been helping her in the house while on holiday which lead INTVER to ask her husband if he is not ashamed to be sitting watching television, INTVEE replies that he never lifts a finger and in general thinks that men over forty have never helped in the home. He will offer visitors a cup of tea but nods at his wife to go and make it. INTVER thinks the interview was unsatisfactory owing to so many people coming and going.

Dates

  • Other: 5 June 1961

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Extent

3 Sheets

Related Materials

Res 4.19

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