Lisa Price chose…

a pram

This toy pram came into the museum's collection in 1972, just as I was being pushed around in my own pram as this was the year I was born at Walsgrave Hospital. I chose it because I found it interesting that they had three-wheeler prams even in Victorian times, I'd thought of this as quite a modern design. I recently bought my little girl her first toy pram and she uses it to transport all sorts of things around – maybe the children who played with this one did the same or perhaps they had a favourite doll. I wonder whether they kept their toys any tidier?!

Lisa Price is a History Officer on the Herbert's Learning team

What the curator says:

Toy pram, late 1800s, collected in 1972

This dolls pram was in the donor's family for 100 years before it was given to the museum in 1972. Dolls have always been popular children's toys and have been found in children's graves in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome.

The first baby doll was made in the 1820s. Until then all dolls were dressed as adults. Baby dolls quickly became popular, and with them came accessories such as rattles, cradles and prams like this one.