New Finds...

Down the tip, for less than pence:

A beautiful vintage pram, not in the best of condition, as you can see it has a mysterious hole on the side, below a shaped dent which suggests someone prised off a logo of some sorts. But that's not the end of it's suspicious injuries...

Weird slashes in its bonnet and inside make for a rather horrific mental picture... but surely its history can't have been as vicious as it seems?

A slightly more jolly footnote is that today I attended Maiden Newton at War, and along with all the ladies in fantastic get-up they were also pushing quite a few vintage prams about, not a few of which looked like this one! It's always nice to see something like this in context, even if you can't go back in time completely!

Although I have been able to find very similar looking prams on the Internet, they all seem to be of different names, so please if you know what this exact model is I'd be very interested to know...

Discerning readers may note that I have not put a baby in it, as it was intended, simply because I do not have one nor the intent to create one in the near future, also the condition of the pram is wholly unhygienic. At the moment it houses one top hat, one straw hat, a broken umbrella and some spare clothes.

Lastly, but not least:

Spotted at the local YMCA, hand-painted, I don't know what sort of age it is but it looks wonderful. If I had a spare £60, I would have wheeled it down the street myself.