coachbuilt prams

My big pram was a Silver Cross for DD and DS1 in Navy with a silver trim and a pram bag with the most lovely sun canopy,it is in DDs loft and I used it when we lived in the family house for DGSs now 23 & 22 they loved it and we would walk for miles mr.glamma called it "The Iron Horse" but I loved it all the shopping would fit nicely underneath and people would stop and talk to the babies something which doesn't seem to happen much now.I'm going to use it again if we have any more babies but at the moment we have no where to keep it downstairs as it takes up a massive amount of space.

Mine was a rather smart burgundy Marmet pram. I loved it and it was used for 3 of my children. I did have a slight 'accident' one day though when crossing a main road. I got onto the island when one wheel came off and sailed down the road leaving me with a 14 month old sitting rather precariously on a clip on pram seat and a new born in the pram. What was I thinking [blush) Luckily a passing driver jumped out of his car ran after my escaping wheel and clipped it back onto the pram for me.

The same day I was placing some meat under the pram into the tray and had forgotten to do the straps up on the aforementioned pram seat and found my baby son sailing downward to the ground. Luckily he was wearing a very very padded hood. This was the poor baby who I put outside in my coach built Marmet pram and only did one strap of his harness up. He was 9 months old. I looked out of my window to check him to find he had disappeared, he was dangling over the pram out of sight.

Please don't report me to child protection he is now a very strapping 44 year old.

I did love the pram though and took good care of that!

Oops no capital I's sorry

I loved my 1980 version a navy cord restmor my second son loved lying underneath on the tray. When i had no 3 the big boys liked to put their lunch boxes etc on the tray. I walked miles and miles and kept them in it for years as i was proud of my white broderie anglais canopy.
It was a sad day for me when i wheeled it to the charity shop

I was just saying to DH, the other day, how nice it is to see a new mother in our area pushing a proper pram. She looked so relaxed pushing the pram and baby looked extremely comfortable.
I had a pram seat for DD when DS was a baby, very useful because I had several miles to walk to the baby clinic and it was uphill all the way back. Pushing a pram was the best exercise I ever did, I got my figure back very quickly.

I loved my big navy blue Silver Cross. When DS2 came along, Mum bought a seat to put across the end. The only trouble was that big brother wouldn't use it. He would either walk or sit at the end of the pram without the seat. Mum wasn't too pleased.

Everyone round to Hummingbird's for turns each!

Hummingbird can I come to your house and have a push....please

Whenim64 I can just see you with your pink pram wheeling it about the house. Face full of nostalgia

I had the baby one end and when the dog couldn't walk any further I popped him in the other end.

My Marmey was racing green too, and I've still got it!

Kiora snap - mine was racing green, too

Oh yes I forgot the bag.

I had a beautiful Marmet for my sons, then a twin Silver Cross for my daughters. I would walk miles with them and could fit so much shopping in the baskets underneath. I love to see babies stretched out in proper prams, looking so comfortable, but my lot only wanted travel systems.

My son's little step-daughter received the most gorgeous pink coach-built Silver Cross dolls pram for Christmas. My baby grandson could fit in it. I had to content myself with wheeling that through the house

Oh lovely memories of my racing green marmet (not sure of the correct name or spelling someone here will know) bigger wheels at the back. Beautifully padded inside. Could be lifted into many positions for sitting baby. It had a bag at the front, a basket underneath, a lovely canopy. A weeks shopping a baby and a toddler would glide along effortlessly. Marvellous

Yes mine was a Silver Cross - they were brilliant as really they were big enough for the child to stay in it until quite old and when I had my second I had a sort of pram seat for the eldest that sat on the back/front? near the handles. Also had a huge shopping tray underneath it used to carry loads.