INTVEE's flat has been in her family for 80 years. She has been living in expectation of the flats coming down for several years, she believes they have been condemned on account of the outside toilets, one toilet to four families. She says she suffers from her nerves and can't keep still, she always has to be doing something. She admits to getting weepy and is quoted as saying "Terrible depressions I get, terrible depressions". She takes 3 aspirins every night. Her husband is unable to work and they are on National Assistance plus the twenty odd shillings she earns. They manage comfortably and get help from family and neighbours. She washes the stair for two of her neighbours for which they pay her. She has two rooms, one does not have an outside window. She looks onto Wilkie Street - she is quoted as saying "a funny lot over there - always crowded with children and dogs, very big dogs, alsations". Her father died when she was young and her mother did odd jobs. She was fed at her granny's up the street "I used to love her big bowls of pea soup, and then on Sunday nights she'd make scones on the griddle. I was always hungry and I was always first there where the food was". She gets up early and cleans her house, goes out for her messages and those for her daughter, comes back and makes dinner for her husband, then to her daughter's to clean and make dinner. She then goes back to her place and puts a wash on, goes out to her job between 3 and 5, comes back and makes tea then goes to her son's house in Newhaven to watch television and babysit, she'll stay until after the last programme about midnight. Her daughter and son-in-law go up to Newhaven once a week for a bath. The National Assistance people have always been helpful and warm.