Excerpts from an interview with Dolly Horgan about Rent-collectors and Tenants. For this interview's catalogue entry click here
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Excerpt 1: About renting a house in Green lane and the tenant-landlord relationship from1930s til the 1960s.Excerpt 2: About 'orders', which was a local name for money lending, a side business run by landlords.
Excerpt 3: About always having the money for the rent as a matter of principle.
Excerpt 4: About chatting with her landlady about common interests like cinema and opera.
Excerpt 5: About changes in crime levels and security on the streets compared to the 30s and 40s.
Excerpt 6: About the appearance and conduct of the landlady's family.
Excerpt 7: About a very shrewd landlady in the 1940s.
Excerpt 8: About getting repairs done by the landlady
Excerpt 9: About the layout of the lanes and the numbering of the houses.
Excerpt 11: About the old lanes and their destruction
Excerpt 12: About the bad reputation of the Blackpool flats and the responsibility of the corporation.
Excerpt 13: About the design of the houses in the Blackpool lanes from the 1920s to 60s.
Excerpt 14: About houses and lanes being evacuated because of TB.
Excerpt 15: About the building and renting out of corporation owned houses in the 1960s on the Northside of Cork city.
Excerpt 16: About putting away money for rent and bills and the modernisation of the houses and the introduction of gas for cooking.
Excerpt 17: About rent books and corporation rent collectors.
Excerpt 18: About budgeting on a pension income.
Excerpt 19: Passing on rented houses down the generations and dealing with passing Itinerant traders.
Excerpt 20: How the corporation calculated rent in a multi-generational and multi income family.