Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Living accommodation; Niddrie.INTVEE lives with her husband and two children in her mother's three apartment corporation house. She and her husband have got all their furniture and are keeping it in storage which has cost them £50 to date. They will take anything to get more room. She doesn't think she will be lonely, she knows of two women already gone to Muirhouse and says she will be busy with the children anyway. She is however concerned about...

Scope and Contents The first two potential interviewees agree to attend the mens discussion group. The second potential interviewee lives in a block of six and is unlikely to be able to come as they are moving temporarily back to Leith to look after a sick relative. The third potential interviewee agreed to attend and his wife talks about the Community Association Committee and some of the complaints they have put to the City Architect but he had an answer for everything - Why were the balconies on the North...

Scope and Contents INTVEE has lived on a prefab estate in Sighthill since 1946. She had heard that the corporation want to move the residents so she wrote to them eighteen months ago. She turned down a house in Muirhouse because this was too far away from her work in Sighthill. She now works in Leith and so has been Muirhouse and likes the look of the buildings going up near the skyscrapers, she thinks they might be the Scottish Special houses - two apartment. She was appalled at the high number of children in...

Scope and Contents Accommodation: Refused relocation to a maisonette in Muirhouse due to it being several stories up and INTVEE's husband is an invalid. Family has been in the pre-fab for five years, previously lived in Dixon Street, Leith in a corporation flat with a kitchen and bathroom. Moved owing to husband's disability and now wish to move from prefab because son has to share a room with his two sisters. INTVEE likes the pre-fab despite the damp and not in a hurry to move. Little social contact with...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and children. She has started a part time job and her husband helps to look after the children. They say their families and friends sneered at them for wanting to buy their own place, they summed up the attitude as being traitors to their class. It was the expected thing for young couples to get sub-let rooms but female INTVEE had a fear of getting a battle-axe of a landlady. When male INTVEE got an unexpected windfall from the pools he bought a dining room...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Family history; housing; employment; neighbours; education of children; child discipline.Family history: Wife was brought up in the Boswalls, husband was brought up in Leith, his mother was a widow and as soon as he was old enough he left school and worked in a butcher's shop, he has lots of relatives in Leith but wife says they don't have anyhing to do with them, only immediate relatives. Married during the war and lived with the wife's...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and four grandchildren in a four apartment flat. INTVER describes the interior as "the furniture is pretty old-fashioned. The suite a dun-coloured, embossed velveteen affair, the table a square one covered in a chenille cloth, a china cabinet with tree tea-sets from very best to ordinary". She had previously lived in various rooms in Edinburgh including a single end in Robbs Entry, Canongate in the early 1930s where she says the buildings were pure slums, just...

Scope and Contents Housing: Complaints about the house include dampness, doors and windows not fitting, condensation, draughts. Very critical of the Differential Rent Scheme which will add ten shillings to their rent. Expresses belief that if the corporation insisted on young wage earners contributing to the rent then they should automatically have the tenancy when older family members die. They had previously been in Lochinvar Camp "a terrible place - a terrible rough lot down there". By contrast their...

Scope and Contents INTVEEs live in a prefab with two children, they think it is ideal for a young married couple. It is difficult to heat in the winter but they have no trouble with damp. The rooms are small but that means they are easy to furnish and the height and shape of the rooms make them easy to decorate. There is a garden for the children. They would happily stay indefinitely but believe their prefabs are coming down to make way for a new church. They would like to move to one of the more permanent...

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...