Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and five children in a block of six flats. They had waited five years for the house and have been tyring to move since they came. INTVEE complains of the impossibility of keeping the stair in a decent condition owing to the number of youths lounging about and using it as a lavatory and leaving rubbish, attracted by the shop windows. INTVER describes the house as showing no sign of lack of money in its furnishings but scruffy and untidy. Children adequately...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives on a ground floor five apartment house. There are six adults including her married daughter and two children. When she married they lived with her mother but then got a house near Victoria Street where there were eight on the stair and they were the only Protestants. Her mother made her feel guilty about no longer having any money coming in but she hadn't approved of the marriage and was always trying to cause trouble. INTVEE likes her present house, her only complaint is the...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Marital relations; family finance; sex education; pregnancy and child rearing.Marital Relations: INTVEE was pregnant at the time of the interview and worried about her husband's drinking and violent and aggressive behaviour. INTVR observes broken door panels but INTVEE blames this on one of her sons. INTVR writes "she told me she had 'fell' again". INTVEE had talked to her doctor who had promised he would speak to her husband next time he was in but he...

Scope and Contents INTVEE and her husband have lived in their house for 5 years. She says there is no communication with the private occupants on the other side of the road. While in the queue for the van she heard one private resident make a comment about the corporation tenants having it easy at the expense of people like her paying £4000 for a £3000 house. INTVEE reminded her that some of them had not had an easy life and that some of their husbands had been disabled as result of First World War. Her...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Neighbours; leisure; child rearing; religion; marital relationsNeighbours: INTVEE lives in a three apartment flat in a block of six with her husband and four children, ages ranging from 2 to 8 yrs. She intensely dislikes the area and neighbours who complain about the children making noise. All her relatives are in Craigmillar and she feels she would be happier there as there would be people to talk to or she would see people she know out the...

Scope and Contents Planned interview to discuss child birth and child rearing without children present. INTVEE's husband is helpful around the house and while she does the dressing, feeding and changing he can and will do all these things. The only thing he won’t do is the washing although he'll hang it up and take it in. She shops and cleans in the morning and leaves lunch for her husband, who works nights, before going to work in town. He will also do the shopping but will not carry the shopping basket and...

Scope and Contents INTVEEs have no previous experience of local authority fee-paying schools. Male INTVEE told by colleagues that Craigmuir was out of the question, they tried Wardie and Trinity but there were no places until the child was tested and then a place was offered immediately. They describe children at Craigmuir and Ainslie Park as scruffy. They are shocked at the frequent use of belt. They think teaching at Trinity is narrow and rigid and deplore the lack of arts - "I don’t think they've ever heard...

Scope and Contents INTVEEs are critical of the educational system as it does not guarantee a place at a good secondary despite going to a fee-paying local authority primary. They think their eldest had been cut off from higher education at 15 and are disappointed that children from outside the local area can take up places. They believe fee-paying schools should be abolished and replaced with a large comprehensive. Their youngest child was sent to Trinity Academy from an early age in order to avoid going to...