Topics discussed included: Living accommodation; friendship and neighbours; local schools; clubs.

Housing: Owner occupier, reasons for choice of house was price, located near to both families and garden. Concern that they might be too near to family in East Pilton - "Best to have to put your coat on to visit your family". They may move again if they have a large family. In process of putting on flush doors.

Employment: Husband did an engineering apprenticeship and went to night school three nights a week throughout adolescence. Wife gave up work on getting married.

Leisure: Both play badminton together one night a week, involved with the Sunday school and church, husband has choir practice one night a week. As teenagers they had been in various clubs including the Junior Ratepayers Club, an offshoot from the Pilton Ratepayers Association which started in 1946 and lasted until about 1955. The Ratepayers organised parties for children and dances for themselves and teenage children. It disbanded because members had to be under 21 and they failed to recruit enough members to continue, television was blamed for this.

Neighbours: Know everyone in their cul-de-sac but there is no dropping in and out with the neighbours. Help would be willingly offered.

Family: Female INTVEE pregnant at the time of interview and will have the baby in hospital due to hypertension.

Education: Son down for Trinity, they like the possibility of staying at the same school for primary and secondary. Husband had attended Heriots after he returned from evacuation. Would prefer to send his children to a co-educational school and they both want their children to be able to return home for lunch. Wife educated locally and thinks it a shame that peopled are turning their backs on the local schools.