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Res.4.7 Female resident, c. 50 yrs, married, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 26 September 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/4/7

Scope and Contents

INTVEE lives with her husband and youngest child, they moved from Leith about 20 years ago. She thinks men of her generation spend more of their time with their families as opposed to her father's generation who spend most of their time with male friends. The men of the younger generation do even more with their children - bathing them and pushing prams. Her main complaint about the house is the noise. She's not always in and out her neighbours houses but has no time for people who don't want anything to do with their neighbours. She thinks the neighbourhood is friendly and women make social contacts through babies. She thinks that the younger women seem to start with everything - holidays, washing machines. She thinks there is less prejudice among the young mothers about sending their children to Granton school, possibly because of the difficulty in getting into a fee-paying school. She thinks Ainslie Park has a bad reputation and says the language she hears from some of the boys is dreadful. She and her husband don't go out much any more. There used to be queues outside the Embassy after the war but hardly anyone goes there now, they watch television instead. She thinks young people have more of a social life than they did, there is more of a culture of getting babysitters.

Dates

  • Other: 26 September 1961

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6 Sheets

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