I visited a friend today & I was telling her our next door neighbours sold dolls prams….Silver Cross type prams.
She showed me the pram they had bought their daughter who is over fifty years old. Lots of cousins played with it over the years so a few years ago they chose to have it restored.
The local garage did the bodywork & she sent off to Silver Cross to have the hood & apron restored.
The result is this stunningly beautiful pram, beautifully sprung & as new.
Do little girls play with prams these days….I do hope so & Andrew seems to sell a good few but I never see them being pushed around as we used to do!
What a beauty.. classic English pram.. Many years ago a local family had a baby girl and the English Grandparents came over for several months and bought a 'life' size pram with them .. they became very familiar walking our country roads with their big bouncy pram .. it was more common to see a kiwi mountain buggy out and about..
@julzmaioro We had a Silver Cross pram for our first born…it was beautiful & in the days when everyone had one but totally useless! We lived half a mile down a farm road in the middle of the country. It wouldn’t go in the car so he just slept in it in the garden & no one 3ver saw it! A short while after they brought out the folding MaClaren pushchair so we bought one of those!
It's wonderful, what a beauty. I had a second hand Silver Cross for my first and second child, but our third was born in Canada and it was all buggies and pushchairs by then
Isn't it a beauty. Brought back memories. We had a pram like this for our kids.
How things have changed. These days they have fold up strollers, nothing like this anymore. I have seen little girls pushing their dolls in strollers but no prams like this one.
We had a fold up pushchair as well as a pram and a carrycot on wheels when our kids were very tiny.
@onewing@busylady So much easier with buggies but they never look as comfortable as a proper sprung pram!
A sun canopy completed the look, now they seem to keep the hood up & a blanket over….suffocating underneath! Babies out in the garden in all weathers except fog….now it’s not safe to leave a baby alone!
A full size pram would be difficult for a child to navigate for her doll, I would think. Most doll carriages are proportionally smaller. It is a beauty for sure.
Oh, how lovely and what a nice story. Yes, a lot of our family baby photos are of my older brother out in the garden in his pram. Standard procedure in those days!
You have reminded me of a photo of my young self pushing a doll's pram with one hand and holding a bunch of snowdrops in the other! I guess my dad must have taken in a long-gone January!
How things have changed. These days they have fold up strollers, nothing like this anymore. I have seen little girls pushing their dolls in strollers but no prams like this one.
We had a fold up pushchair as well as a pram and a carrycot on wheels when our kids were very tiny.
A sun canopy completed the look, now they seem to keep the hood up & a blanket over….suffocating underneath! Babies out in the garden in all weathers except fog….now it’s not safe to leave a baby alone!
Alison a small version of the larger one! Hard to get scale but definitely a dolls pram.
Love seeing little girls with their dollies! Not sure what Nina liked to play with sadly!!!! We gave never met yet!