Leisure

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Accommodation; work; leisure; finance; shops.Accommodation: INTVEE lives in one of the old people's maisonettes in Muirhouse which consists of one room with a bed annexe, a small kitchenette and a bathroom. The fire is an open hearth one with a Sofona type fire place and heated water at the back. The walls are all papered. The kitchenette has an old gas cooker and a set of low cupboards with work tops and a sink by the window. There is an airing cupboard...

Scope and Contents Accommodation: INTVEE lives with his wife and two children, 20 and 19 yrs, on the top floor of a three storey block in Granton. It is a three apartment house built in 1938. It could have more cupboard space, the heating arrangement is fine. The son sleeps in the living room. INTVER comments that the house has a more middle class appearance than other houses - a tile fireplace in the living room, decorated with contemporary paper, large carpet on the floor, large radiogramme and a television....

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Accommodation; neighbourhood; family; personal finance; weekly routine.Accommodation: INTVEE is a widow and lives alone in a ground floor, three apartment flat. Her and her husband were the very first tenants. INTVER comments that the flat is comfortable with no indication of straightened means and writes that it is all very chintzy and cushiony with lots of knick-knacks around. It is noted that she is enthusiastic about a young relative's decor which is...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Living accommodation and standard of workmanship; behaviour of local children; early life; pensioner clubs; behaviour of young mothers; personal finance.INTVEEs live in a two-apartment new house in a block of six having moved from a house elsewhere in the area. INTVER describes the accommodation as "pretty unimaginative for 1961, but the insides are quite pleasant. The stairway was quite colourful with blue on the lower half instead of the dark green and...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Living accommodation and furnishings; flat maintenance; decline in friendliness and neighbourliness; generational difference in parental duties; childhood and early life; Newhaven; money and employment; politics and unions.INTVEEs live on the top floor of a multi-storey block. They have no children. They have lived there for 2 and half years and were on the waiting list for three and half years. They had been living in one room which had ben divided in...

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Social contacts; living accommodation; hobbies.INTVEE is a widow who lives alone in a 3 apartment bungalow where she has lived for 11 years. She knows the neighbours but doesn't have much contact with them. She is not particularly pleased with the house, thinks it is cold. She watches television, does the garden and spends time with her grandchildren.Interviewer's thoughts: From her tone of voice she thinks the INTVEE feels that life is a bit...

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 Summary includes a description of the street and living accommodation. Other topics discussed include: Neighbourhood; money; work.INTVEE currently lives with his wife in a tenement in the city centre. They are on the priority list under the clearance scheme. They expected to get the keys to their new house in North Edinburgh in a few weeks time. They have been given no information about their new house or the area. INTVER thinks it is a neglect on the part of the corporation not...

Scope and Contents Summary includes a description of his living accommodation and outside space. Other topics discussed include: The neighbourhood and social contacts; television, cars; money.INTVEE is described as rather aggressive but not unfriendly. He lives on the ground floor of a two storey block with his wife and two children aged 15 and 12. He has older children who no longer live at home. He'd like to move if he could. His house is a four-apartment, he likes it but thinks the rent is too...

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...