Scope and Contents

"Useless fellow, labourer in the wool mill, simple. Not very fair in his dealings at home - spends his money on drink. Steady in work. Parents dead."

Relatives in survey: Daughter 28.212

Scope and Contents

"Said to have been in CRI. Was at a special school. "No just altogether correct mentally". Drink makes him wild. Single, unskilled worker with a haulage contractor. Mother elderly. LE: Steady work record, very shy but pleasant."

Relatives in survey: sister 28.49

Scope and Contents

"Millworker and domestic servant. Rate aided patient. Diagnosis: Dementia (morosis with conrusio.) MD and schizophrenia. Admitted to CRI 1931. Incoherent, lies in bed grimacing, says she cannot breathe. Unable to understand what is said to her. Refused food, gets out of bed at night and sits on floor calling for doctors. Noisy at nights."

Scope and Contents

"This man, a drunken Irishman, single, does casual jobs, shawing neaps etc. mostly in the country. "As mad as a march hare", almost a tramp. Drinks."

Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Family history; housing; employment; neighbours; education of children; child discipline.Family history: Wife was brought up in the Boswalls, husband was brought up in Leith, his mother was a widow and as soon as he was old enough he left school and worked in a butcher's shop, he has lots of relatives in Leith but wife says they don't have anyhing to do with them, only immediate relatives. Married during the war and lived with the wife's...

Scope and Contents

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.

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 INTVEE grew up on a farm before moving with his family to Wardieburn at the age on nine. He left school at 14 and had various jobs in cinemas and at the North British Rubber Works. At 18 he joined the navy. He spent seven days leave in Philadelphia and remembers going round Gimball Brothers' Store which had one whole floor laid out with electric trains, twice the size of Woolworths in Princes Street. He now works at the Wireworks, he likes the job but not the people, his truck turned over...

Scope and Contents INTVEE left school at 14 when his father was still a prisoner of war, his first job was as a can boy on a building site making cups of tea, he then went to the shipyards but his apprenticeship was interrupted by National Service. INTVEE and his wife moved to Edinburgh at the time of the rivetters strike so there wasn’t a job available. He did some engineering then eventually got a job at Henry Robbs. He was laid off last year. He was offered a job in England but was told he would have to...

Scope and Contents There is some discussion about organisational structure. There are day workers and shift workers. The shift workers are mainly those who have grown up in the gasworks. There is a formal and informal structure, at times of crises certan people come forward and they stand out and are noticed afterwards. The operations are not continuously dangerous but there are critical moments in the process and dangers to avoid e.g. they must not allow the gasholder to become empty and they must not allow...