Scope and Contents INTVEE lives in a three apartment flat in Wardieburn and is the only tenant in her stair who has been there since the beginning. When she first moved here she thinks it was much more friendly, children and young mothers would paly in the street, theyd go on picnic together. Her husbnad had been ill with ulcers for many years before he died. She made the decision to pay for one of her sons to go on to secondary education. When the new Education Act came in she got a refund. Her husbnad would...

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 Return visit. INTVEE says the block is much friendlier now than it used to be with the exception of one woman who is always borrowing and doesn't repay and rarely talks to her neighbours. She is no longer friendly with one of the first neighbours she met who had to have an operation about which she was worried and anxious. INTVEE had tried to reassure her but with no success and didn't know what else to do. INTVER expresses shock at the inability of a young woman to understand or accept...

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 Leith: INTVEE's chief memories of Leith are "the dark stair, gaslight on the stair and in the house, only one outside lavatory for four families and no bath, having to go to the public baths every week" Her family had slept in one room - her mother and five children, when she moved to Pilton she only had to share with one sibling. Her mother was reluctant to be re-housed.Neighbours: INTVEE does not see much of her neighbours, she speaks to people at the van but nothing more and...

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INTVEE says occupations in the area range from window cleaners to white collar. Her neighbours confide their problems in her, if she had any problems of an intimate nature she would consult a doctor.

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INTVEE's husband gets up at half past five and makes is tea and porridge and is quoted as saying "none of that coffee and toast stuff". When he is speaking to neighbours she tells him not to speak so Leith-y. She likes to blether but not at the coffee mornings which her neighbours have, she's not used to having time to herself to spend like that and she doesn't think she speaks posh enough.

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 Topics include: Accommodation; Leith; health.Accommodation: INTVEE lives on the first floor, her daughter sleeps on a bed-settee in the living room and her son has a bedroom to himself at which INTVER expresses surprise and suggests it should be the other way round. Mention of a rule relating to the back greens that prohibit children from entering to play.INTVEE has her children's names down for Trinity and Wardie schools and will move if they get Leith. She grew up...

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...