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...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Living accommodation; extended family; neighbourhood and quarrels about children; Gorgie; work; money; leisure; shopping.The interview was conducted entirely on the doorstep which INTVER notes is a difficulty for unannounced calls in particular when the interviewer is male and interviewee female. She lives with her husband and three children (8, 5 and 3 yrs) in a three-apartment ground floor flat in a block of four. They previously lived in furnished...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Accommodation and outside space; community associations; pubs; food; leisure; television; money.This interview was intended to be a group discussion with male residents but only one attended. INTVEE is married with children. He had grown up in Leith and Wardieburn before the Second World War and lived in Niddrie before moving to Muirhouse. He now lives in a five apartment corporation house. He thinks Niddrie is a rough area and has a much worse...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and two children. INTVER describes the street as having "Quite pleasant gardens. Lawnmowers clanking round" and has been told that the houses were built by the Cockburn Association and factored by Gumleys. The houses are still mostly rented but are to be sold when they become vacant. They are not advertised but are in high demand. INTVEE likes her house but is not so positive about the district. She thinks the area is good for children, there is a garden. Pilton...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Neighbourhood; employment and finance; local amenities; education: leisure; child rearing.Neighbourhood: INTVEE describes the street as friendly and neighbours as helpful, no drunkenness or brawls. Her husband thinks the Doo'cot pub is rowdy.House: INTVER describes the house as "very bare, the wallpaper dirty and torn, scanty and shabby furniture with bright pink lino from which the pattern has been largely rubbed off. There's an old TV and...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband, children and father. The kitchen has been repainted in yellow and green which INTVER describes as "a little bit flashy". He also comments that "the general appearance of the living room is extremely scruffy with rather dirty dull wallpaper and stain on the woodwork and very tattered lino and bits of mat on the floor. The furniture is rather rickety and worn as well". INTVEE says they want to re-do the whole house. INTVER comments on the numerous interruptions...

Scope and Contents INTVEEs live with their two sons and wife's brother in a three apartment house. They had previously lived in a six apartment basement flat in town but had to leave as the building was unsafe. Wife would like to leave this flat has it is too overcrowded but otherwise likes the district. She thinks the balcony would be more useful as part of the interior and just makes the rooms darker. INTVER agrees that the balconies on the ground floor serve no function other than an aesthetic one but...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Housing and neighbourhood; schools; breast-feeding; household chores.Housing and neighbourhood: INTVEE lives with her husband and two children. She likes her house, her only complaint is the noise and she is constantly on at her own children not to stomp about the house. The family were attracted to the area because of family connections and proximity to husband's work. She finds the neighbourhood pleasant and handy for Boswall Park...

Scope and Contents Summary includes brief thoughts on neighbourhood, neighbours, leisure and alcohol, church, Leith.Neighbours and Neighbourhood: INTVEEs both very enthusiastic about the area and husband quoted as saying "Lovely, I wouldn't change it for a thousand pounds". They say hello to the neighbours and might occasionally borrow some tea or sugar. Male INTVEE discusses the snobbery of church going people - getting dressed up just to look at each other and gossip.The children were...