Scope and Contents Description of living accommodation and household. Other topics discussed include: Personal finance and bills; family; early life and education.INTVEE lives with her husband and two children in one room in St James Square in Leith. Her children have had bronchitis and diarrhoea and she thinks it is the house. They pay almost £1 a week in rent. INTVER says of the location that "it is almost as slummy as Arthur Street but with perhaps more dignity which maybe makes it even worse...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives in Leith. She has a room and kitchen with indoor lavatory in a very old tenement. The kitchen is small and dark. The living room was also a bedroom for her three children aged 18, 10 and 6. After some agonising calculations she had turned down a house in Muirhouse because the rent would be nearly £2 a week and on top of that would be bus fares and furniture. They carried out renovations last year putting in electric light. The landlady had only just agreed but they had been...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and two children. She and her husband are both Catholic. She is enthusiastic about Wardieburn but complains about the lack of playing space for children - they come home plastered in dog muck and cuts from broken bottles left in the long grass. She and her neighbour [also present] think Pilton Park lacks essentials for both young mothers and older people; until recently there was only one bench and OAPs would run along after lunch to make sure they got a seat....

Scope and Contents Leith: INTVEE's chief memories of Leith are "the dark stair, gaslight on the stair and in the house, only one outside lavatory for four families and no bath, having to go to the public baths every week" Her family had slept in one room - her mother and five children, when she moved to Pilton she only had to share with one sibling. Her mother was reluctant to be re-housed.Neighbours: INTVEE does not see much of her neighbours, she speaks to people at the van but nothing more and...

Scope and Contents Return visit to talk more about Leith.INTVEE had been to see her doctor in Leith with symptoms of weariness and loss of interest in life. She had been told it was probably the change of life and given no special treatment. INTVEE recalls being told by a neighbour when she moved in "Don't think you're living in St Andrews Street now. It’s people like you coming from the slums that let the place down". An older woman had commented on the behaviour of her children and that she must...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives in a four apartment house with her husband. She takes in lodgers but has not sought permission, she doesn't think anyone on the stair will tell on her. She doesn't want to give up her house as they have spent a lot of money on it and with the rent increases she will have to pay just as much for a two roomed new corporation flat. She has two part time jobs and is critical of the young women who do not work and waste their time gossiping all day. She had seven kids but managed to...

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INTVEE's husband gets up at half past five and makes is tea and porridge and is quoted as saying "none of that coffee and toast stuff". When he is speaking to neighbours she tells him not to speak so Leith-y. She likes to blether but not at the coffee mornings which her neighbours have, she's not used to having time to herself to spend like that and she doesn't think she speaks posh enough.

Scope and Contents INTVEE is a 62 year old widower who lives with his married son and daughter in law who are also present for some of the interview. Previously lived in Albert Street, Leith, where the children (all sons) slept in a bed recess off the main room. The family then moved to a four apartment house near Ferry Road. He left to live with his son on the death of his wife. INTVER wonders if the married couple are embarrassed having rows in front of the INTVEE but this is denied. The house has two...

Scope and Contents Topics include: Accommodation; Leith; health.Accommodation: INTVEE lives on the first floor, her daughter sleeps on a bed-settee in the living room and her son has a bedroom to himself at which INTVER expresses surprise and suggests it should be the other way round. Mention of a rule relating to the back greens that prohibit children from entering to play.INTVEE has her children's names down for Trinity and Wardie schools and will move if they get Leith. She grew up...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Living accommodation and family; early life in Leith; personal finance; hobbies. Kinship diagram included. Interviewer is male.INTVEEs live in one of area's old people's flats built by the Department of Health for Scotland about four years ago. Two changes have been made since they were built - the washing lines have been moved from the far end to just outside the kitchen windows and the children's playground, which was just outside the houses, has been...