Folding prams

Wish I'd kept the Siver Cross pram I had. I do have a largish pram here which is super to take babies for walks along our single track country road.It is like new and my daughter bought it for £10 from a car boot sale.
The all singing, dancing pram we bought for our latest GC was nearly £800 !!!!

And, in the 60s, I had a black Marmet Queen...enormous stately wheels...polished to perfection - with white leather interior and all-white sheets and shawls. Two children sitting facing each other. How I loved our daily walks [4 miles each way] to Abington Park, the rose garden and the aviary...then refreshments in the museum tea rooms. As for today's folding prams, I must admit that I find them somewhat of a puzzle. glammanana...I do as you do

Oh my ! a Siver Cross Grosvenor, a proper pram

When ever any of my DCs spring the news another little treasure is
due out comes the Grosvenor and the tin of duraglit and if they want me
to have the baby at any time when we go out I walk,I leave all the
technical stuff to them

I too have just joined and had the same problems with prams so much so that I have had to ask peopel with prams how they work, they are also all different. What happened to the simple pull up metal rings and push down? No trapping of fingers and easy and all the same!!

Harrigran...love the 'Pramogami'
When our first grandchild was a baby I took her to our local Garden Centre and could not refold her 'Jane' pram when we returned to the car........inspite of a number of people trying to help. Fortunately we had a Freelander at the time...so had to collapse the seats and put the whole pram as it was into the back of the car. I felt a right idiot !!! [blush[
My youngest daughters i Candy cherry is much easier to fold and manouver....thank goodness, as I will be looking after GS for 2 days a week when she goes back to work in Sept.

Oh yes I'd forgotten the buggy folding. By the time I'd mastered it my granddaughter had outgrown it and preferred to walk! I can remember once when we were out for the day no amount of pushing, kicking pulling would make it fold down to put in the car. We ended up putting the whole buggy just as it was in the back of the car and I never did get the hang of the rain cover.

And bring back waterproof prams. What is the use of a padded pram that you can't take out in the rain ? That happened to a young friend of mine. It was not cheap either - and the colour ran.

With the good old Silver Cross you had a waterproof apron that hooked up onto the hood, leaving a space that the child could see out of but the rain could not get into. The rain covers on the modern ones are hard to fit, particularly in a sudden rainstorm, and the child then sits in a steamy Turkish bath. You see mothers pushing them inside the supermarket with the rain cover still tightly in place - in case Tesco's roof springs a leak, I suppose.

He he he... know that feeling ohhh so well. With all these fandangle buggies you need a master class in how to fold them, steer them, and even worse how to fit rain covers on !!! Just bring back proper prams i say !!

I thought I was the only person incapable of pramogami.

I'm glad that I am not the only one that struggles with folding prams/pushchairs, my engineering degree never included pram folding, obviously a lack of foresight. Why can't they colour code those important bits you have to push/pull/kick in order to fold the xxxxxxx thing.