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Scope and Contents INTVEEs live with their 3 children in one room in a basement flat in the town centre for which they pay about £4 a month. They are looking forward to having 4 rooms in their new place and perhaps even a garden. Husband is quoted as saying "a room I can go into and be quiet when I come in". They don't like the flats in Muirhouse as there are too many children. They have been asked to sign a form saying if they go to the house any accidents to them or the children will not be held against the...

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 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 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...

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This was an unannounced visit to arrange an interview. INTVEE talks about her disapproval of bingo, she has played it while on holiday in Port Glasgow and found it boring. She is quoted as saying "Terrible thing, children running about not properly clothed and looked after - their mothers are sitting in those halls night after night!"

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband and youngest child, they moved from Leith about 20 years ago. She thinks men of her generation spend more of their time with their families as opposed to her father's generation who spend most of their time with male friends. The men of the younger generation do even more with their children - bathing them and pushing prams. Her main complaint about the house is the noise. She's not always in and out her neighbours houses but has no time for people who don't...

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INTVEEs live in a four apartment flat. They think there is some animosity towards house owners form the older inhabitants who have always rented. Male INTVEE would like to have a car if they didn’t have the house payments and is quoted as saying "that's it - I'll feel I've arrived when I get my car". They go to church in Stockbridge but are not members of any organisations. They like most of all to go out together for a meal or a drink.

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband, grown up children and her parents who have lived with her all her married life. She was born in Leith, her parents moved there in 1893 for work. She says the Wardie Residents Association was needed after the war because people had been starved of a social atmosphere, it's not so necessary now and numbers are dwindling. She attends a keep fit class and goes to Scottish and Old Time dancing. She likes Wardie because it's convenient and wouldn't want to move. She...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her two sons in a three apartment house on the first floor of a three storey tenement. They have been in the house for 18 years and previously lived in Wardieburn having been moved there from Leith under the slum clearance scheme. They had moved to Granton after her husband died and thought it was much more respectable, there had been a lot of fighting on the stairs in Wardieburn. Her neighbours here are all very pleasant. One of her sons was decorating the bedroom with a...

Scope and Contents INTVEE lives with her husband in a ground floor flat in a small tenement block of six flats surrounded by semi-detached houses which INTVER thinks are mainly privately owned. They have no family and have lived in their house for 20 years. She was born in Leith and her husband was born in Ireland. Her husband was made to retire at 65yrs but would have liked to have stayed on. He felt embarrassed at being an able bodied man out in the street during the day. INTVEE had not worked since she...