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prams
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Quoy | Report | 10 Oct 2011 19:42 |
I collect coach built prams if you want a trip down memory lane here is a link to some of them |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 10 Oct 2011 20:55 |
The pics of the prams brought back memories of my eldests pram 46 yrs ago.. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 10 Oct 2011 21:03 |
Nostalgia. I had two coach built prams (children were born 7 years apart The first one was really big, with 2 very large wheels and two smaller. I think it was a marmet, it was grey and white. The second was smaller and brown and white, can't remember the make. (1960 and 1967). |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 10 Oct 2011 21:12 |
I love real prams :-D |
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~`*`Jude`*`~ | Report | 10 Oct 2011 21:15 |
Blimey that brought back some memories:) |
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Sylvia | Report | 10 Oct 2011 21:16 |
I think these prams were the best. They lasted so long . The buggies that babies have now are soon outgrown and are then replaced . Not cheap either. |
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Silly Sausage | Report | 10 Oct 2011 21:17 |
Sylvia I detest seeing new babies squashed up in the ruddy chair seat buggy contraptions... :-| |
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~`*`Jude`*`~ | Report | 10 Oct 2011 21:19 |
l love real prams too........and those that face you!!!! |
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Suzanne | Report | 10 Oct 2011 21:21 |
i had a silver cross coach built pram when i was a baby in the 60s,when my daughter was preg last yr,i looked up on the internet ,thinking that i would love to buy my grandaughter one,quoted £1,000,she didnt get it. :-D |
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Kay???? | Report | 10 Oct 2011 21:24 |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 10 Oct 2011 22:30 |
In 1958 I had a black Silver Cross and a cream canopy. Used to wash and polish it every week. End of 1959 sold it to a young mum in Cyprus desperate for a pram. Then I returned to UK and found I was pregnant - this time it was a Pedigree - cream with maroon hood/apron/bag. Big prams were great if you had loads of shopping just lift the mattress up and release a section of pram and chuck everything in bottom of pram! |
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Sharron | Report | 11 Oct 2011 01:24 |
My uncle and aunt moved into a new,purpose built farm cottage in 1948. One totally innovative part of the design was a particularly spacious hallway to accommodate a pram. |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 11 Oct 2011 04:55 |
Wish I had never sold the one I had - it had carried four babies for a work colleague who sold it to me very cheaply when I was expecting my daughter in 1974, sadly she never got to use it but it was put in my Mum and Dad's loft and brought down when I had my son in 1982. It was cream and brown, a Silver Cross, and was a joy to use. Luckily I had a sort of conservatory on the back of the house so I was able to wheel it in, park it there, and not worry about dirt on the wheels going through the house. |
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Quoy | Report | 11 Oct 2011 06:35 |
A few years ago there was a documentary where they put a film camera in a buggy and walked round as a normal day a sort of" Babies eye view " |
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Purple **^*Sparkly*^** Diamond | Report | 11 Oct 2011 06:56 |
I wish they would, Princess Diana was not happy about buggies apparently and said they would cause problems with babies, and it's a thought I have long held too |
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Merlin | Report | 11 Oct 2011 14:13 |
You lot sound Broody, :-S |
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ChrisofWessex | Report | 11 Oct 2011 14:21 |
Nostalgic perhapss - broody NO!!! |
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Merlin | Report | 11 Oct 2011 14:26 |
:-D.just kidding.I used to make the Springs for Silver Cross Prams,they were made in Tipton.mostly Coach Built by hand. :-D |
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Battenburg | Report | 11 Oct 2011 14:38 |
I had a Silver Cross coach built . Bottle Green pram with the same colour interior. It was supposed to be better for the babies eyes. Bought it in 1968 and it was beautiful. |
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Running Bear | Report | 11 Oct 2011 15:49 |
Best was the wheels made great trolleys with them. Them was the days back in the 50s |