One INTVEE had grown up in Pitt Street and lived in Lapicide Place, would like to return to Leith primarily because of the shops. She probably has better neighbours in Muirhouse but dislikes the balcony layout, preferring stair layout because it allows more privacy. The stairs themselves in Leith were dark but once you were in your own house you were all right. No decent walls in the new houses, can hear everything. Complained that the sun was on the wrong side to the balconies but was told [by council] that they were for access only, not for sitting on. Includes a discussion of domestic violence and how they can do little as the wife will always stick up for her husband. During the interview a male neighbour comes to borrow money for the meter as he was machining a dress for his daughter. One of the INTVEEs had been thrown out of the guides at a Protestant church because she was Catholic. Complaint that the block of flats looked like a barracks or a state penitentiary. A neighbouring block is described as "slummy" and a woman there had been selling "oriel" contraceptives for sixteen shillings a month. Most of the INTVEEs took pills for their nerves, one took a sleeping pill at night and a pep pill in the morning.