Neighbours
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
Res.7.39 Female resident, age unknown, married, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 20 November 1962
Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/7/39
Scope and Contents
INTVEE lives in a block of eight flats, there are 23 children under school age, including some of her own, which causes noise and squabbles. She prefers her house in Muirhouse to the one she had in Wardieburn. She could not go back to the room-and-kitchen life. Her father was very strict, parents are not nearly so strict now. She left school at 15 and worked in Binns, juniors were treated like dirt.
Dates:
Other: 20 November 1962
Sch.12 Summary of an interview with a married female resident regarding the education of her children at fee-paying and non fee-paying local authority schools, female interviewer, 1962
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/4/12
Scope and Contents
INTVEE doesn't believe in being too friendly with neighbours, she never took friends back to her house as a child because it was full of her mother's friends and neighbours. Eldest son completed a five year language course at Trinity Academy but doesn't want to go to university. She told him, "I send you to a good school so that you speak better than me". Her daughter's education had been marred by ill health in her early childhood and so she was sent to the local school at Granton, lots of...
Dates:
Other: 1962
Sch.31 Summary of two interviews with a married couple regarding the education of their children at non fee-paying and fee-paying local authority schools, female interviewer, 10 April 1962
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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/4/31
Scope and Contents
Topics discussed include: Playing areas - children are forbidden to play football on the central green as neighbours complain to police; travelling to school - children go by bus even to Ainslie Park because female INTVEE thinks it's safer, she worries about roads and walking through West Pilton; Ainslie Park - provides good education; future careers – they do not want their son to be a manual worker but to have a salaried position so there is more security and no involvement with the...
Dates:
Other: 10 April 1962
Story about Calum Cille's sister, 1901
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/33
Scope and Contents
Story about Calum Cille's [St Columba's] sister, who was going to the sheiling with another woman. Calum Cille told her to put a stone in her sack and when the woman asked her what she had in her sack to tell her that it was cheese. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1901