Res.6.9 Female resident, age unknown, married, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 12 February 1962

INTVEE is not happy with her flat or the district, there are no shops and no places for the children to play. To go out to the vans she has to take her children down several flights of stairs. There is a general feeling of isolation. She takes her children for walks quite a lot and likes the houses in Clermiston or Drylaw. She has put her name down on the exchange list. She doesn't know anyone who uses the lockers for prams on the ground floor - the doors don't go down to the floor so a lot of stour blows in and the prams get filthy. She had her first child in the Eastern General and the others in the Western, she preferred the Western as it was more up to date and the nursing care was superior. She finds the area cold with the winds off the sea and fogs in the winter.