As many of you know, on 11th and 12th May the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke on Trent hosted the second Pram Collectors’ Weekend. This year the event was over two days, giving people the option to stay for both days or visit on either Saturday or Sunday. Regrettably the weather was not very good, English summers are not very predictable, but nevertheless the event was well attended and I am sure everyone enjoyed themselves. Over the next few posts I[...]
After seeing the Pram of the Month for May, a Vintage Pram Fan very kindly got in touch to say she had one like this as a child! How wonderful to here from this lady, here is her message: I was absolutely thrilled to see the picture of the Super Toy Airliner as Pram of the Month – May. I had one as a child, and loved it and played with it until I was in my early teens, then[...]
Sadly this week I lost a dear friend, a lifelong friend of my parents and as was usual in the days of my childhood, friends like this were called “auntie” or “uncle” and I always called her Auntie Delia, even though on my wedding day she told me as I was now a married woman it was time to lose the “auntie” and just call her Delia. Whenever I called her Auntie in company she would always say “I am[...]
As many of you know, on 11th and 12th May the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke on Trent hosted the second Pram Collectors’ Weekend. This year the event was over two days, giving people the option to stay for both days or visit on either Saturday or Sunday. Regrettably the weather was not very good, English summers are not very predictable, but nevertheless the event was well attended and I am sure everyone enjoyed themselves. Over the next few posts I[...]
After seeing the Pram of the Month for May, a Vintage Pram Fan very kindly got in touch to say she had one like this as a child! How wonderful to here from this lady, here is her message: I was absolutely thrilled to see the picture of the Super Toy Airliner as Pram of the Month – May. I had one as a child, and loved it and played with it until I was in my early teens, then[...]
Sadly this week I lost a dear friend, a lifelong friend of my parents and as was usual in the days of my childhood, friends like this were called “auntie” or “uncle” and I always called her Auntie Delia, even though on my wedding day she told me as I was now a married woman it was time to lose the “auntie” and just call her Delia. Whenever I called her Auntie in company she would always say “I am[...]
As I prepare to jet off on holiday to the sun with one of the modern airlines, I thought for this month’s Pram of the Month I would show a pram from the 1930′s with the name Super Toy Airliner. It is certainly quite a streamlined model, note on the information it states it has a “concealed chassis”, not something we see nowadays. At a price of 63 shilllings, this was surely an expensive toy. It would be interesting[...]
In an earlier post I gave information about the Pram Collectors’ Weekend to be held in two weeks’ time at the Wedgwood Museum in Stoke on Trent over two days, 11th and 12th May. It is still not too late for you to book tickets for one or both days. There have never been so many prams all in one place since the days of Baby Clinics! Prams of all ages, styles and sizes, dolly prams and pushchairs as well.[...]
Below is the updated schedule for the National Pram Collectors’ Weekend on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th May 2013. There is still time to book tickets, details at the end of this notice. You will be delighted to hear that the final touches are now being made to the second National Pram Collectors Weekend here at the Wedgwood Museum when you will be able to meet up with other pram lovers and enjoy a truly wonderful event filled with[...]
Here are more 1940s/Vintage events where I am sure you will be welcome to take your prams. Vintage Pram Fans are being invited to lots of events as more organisers are realising that they represent the Home Front in wartime, or are a reminder of times past at general vintage displays. Droptoe prams were very popular throughout the war years, as they were versatile and could be used from birth until a child was older. My mother had a Marmet[...]
Nowadays a lot of the modern prams are made abroad and imported here, these are the fabric ones which are no comparison to the traditional prams. Silver Cross is now the only company in England who still make traditional coachbuilt prams in their Yorkshire factory, some of these are exported abroad to families who want to own a traditional English pram for their babies, often seen as a status symbol. And families who emigrated in the fifties and sixties often took[...]
1st April is April Fools’ Day and you could be forgiven for wondering if a “coachbuilt boat” is an April Fool Joke, so read on to find out! April’s Pram of the Month is featured with kind permission from Janis, who lives in Scotland and here is what she has to tell us about it: “This unidentified pram was delivered to me by a lovely couple, it was the lady’s pram when she was a child. However, it arrived with[...]
The bonny baby in this beautiful Wilson pram recently celebrated her 50th Birthday and when looking through the family photographs her mother very kindly sent me this picture and told me a bit more about her pram. When this lady found out she was expecting her first baby she knew the only pram she wanted was a Silver Cross, a more luxury Wilson model, and she began looking in local pram shops to see what was available. She is not[...]
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