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Res.4.14 Female resident, 35-40yrs, married, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 3 October 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/4/14

Scope and Contents

INTVEE lives with her husband and three children in a four apartment semi-detached house. They were the first tenants. When they were first married they lived with family in Leith but once they had their first child they moved to two smallish rooms at Lochinvar Camp expecting to be there for a few months only. They were there for four years. They shared some Wren officers quarters with another family so were removed from the main camp. They had a small kitchen but for the most part they used the a communal kitchen with big ranges. They called it the "warren" because it was a maze of little rooms connected with dark alleyways; they had to leave the lights on all the time. Everyone had their own cooking pots and ate separately. She was glad to move out because it was very noisy and sharing a kitchen causes trouble. She thinks any problems she has with her eldest child is because she was too strict, she was more lenient with the younger children. She is friendly with her neighbours but they are not in and out of each other's houses. She had enough of living next to other people at Lochinvar. She had two of her children at Elsie Inglis and her last one at home which was much better. The hospital was too impersonal.

Dates

  • Other: 3 October 1961

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