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 INTVEEs moved in to their flat three weeks ago. It is a second storey three apartment flat in a three storey block. There are six families on the stair. INTVER notes that the wife was out when he first arrived and although she appeared later on he didn't get to speak to her as much as he would have liked. Female INTVEE thinks their part of the district is nice but is rougher further down where there are broken windows and fences but husband says people always think their own part is nicer....

Scope and Contents INTVEEs moved into their flat three weeks ago from Leith. They moved in in one day and didn't meet anyone but spent the day arranging their furniture. They found themselves whispering to each other on the first day then wondered why they were being so quiet, they find the district pleasant and quiet with all the children quiet by 9pm which is the time they were starting to get noisy down in Leith. They have two children, the eldest child still goes to school in Leith, the youngest is not yet...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives alone in a three apartment, ground floor flat in a block of six. INTVER thinks that the street looks scruffy with some unattended gardens and harling fallen off. INTVEE says a man from the corporation came and knocked more harling off but has not been back to fix it. INTVEE burst into tears twice during the interview over the death of her husband in February. She thinks it would be a lot easier if she could find a job to do. She had previously worked at a house where there was a...

Scope and Contents INTVEEs live on the top storey of a three storey tenement block in a three apartment flat. They have lived in their flat for three years, coming to live here when male INTVEE retired. They go out together a lot to visit friends and regularly go on cruises. He retired at 65 and still won't go back to the docks as it upsets him, he got fed up being at home all the time but is getting used to it. He reads the Reader's Digest. His wife has a more active social life mainly connected with church...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and three children in a four apartment semi-detached house. They were the first tenants. When they were first married they lived with family in Leith but once they had their first child they moved to two smallish rooms at Lochinvar Camp expecting to be there for a few months only. They were there for four years. They shared some Wren officers quarters with another family so were removed from the main camp. They had a small kitchen but for the most part they used...

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 INTVEEs have lived in their house since it was built, the male INTVEE had been involved in founding the Ratepayers Association which was started by a group of residents attending a political meeting during local elections. The first thing they took on was Pilton park which was a wilderness, they had been led to believe by McTaggart and Mickel that it would be a private garden and resident would have a key like the garden in the town centre. They discovered that this was not because of the...

Scope and Contents Includes discussion of employment in the health profession and employment history. Anecdote about a man, possibly Indian, wanting to adopt him and sibling when they lived in Niddrie but his mother moved them away. Other topics discussed include: Accommodation; neighbours; children and young people.Accommodation: INTVEE didn't think the house was bad but inconvenient - the washbasin was positioned up above the bath and the coal hole is located in the kitchen which means the...

Scope and Contents Housing: INTVEE had previously been housed in the Lochinvar Camp which she remembers fondly. The place got a bad name after the Craigentinny crowd came. Provisions inadequate with one toilet and cooker for 12 families but she had own grill and zinc bath in her hut which she had provided herself. Her new house was filthy when it was allocated and she and friends from the camp spent every night for a week cleaning it.Finance: Her husband earns £18 a week. They have an "insurance...