To ask when they started calling it a 'pram'?

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When did it stop being called a baby carriage?

I need the correct name for London, 1959...

If anyone knows? Middle/upper class family.

Thank you hive

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Wow that graph!

Seems the use of the word "minge" increased in the 60's but has benn declining since the turn of the century

Ada, Shannon Maternity wards used to have a little drinks trolley that the midwives wheeled around the ward handing out bottles of Guinness to patients every night “for the iron content”, this was in Doncaster in 1979. My mum doesn’t like Guinness and used to get told off for turning it down.

Shannon Yes, stout was believed to have medicinal qualities. Guinness had a slogan "A baby in every bottle" at one time!

Your household book collection sounds fab!

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The first versions of McClaren came about sometime in the Seventies, mid-Seventies perhaps. That I think is when they started to be buggies. The first were very simple, then they got balloon tyres and were able to recline, and had a space for your shopping underneath.

The old fashioned prams, more streamlined, but recognisable as descended from the ones in the picture, started to go out totally in the early 80s. Even before then, in the seventies, prams started to come with detachable chassis's so that the base could be put in the car while the body was used as a carrycot on the back seat.

There was no Guinness on my maternity ward in 1975.

If you didn't like Guiness, then Mackeson was a lighter (Sweeter?) version. It was supposed to help you produce milk.

Sashkin Amazing! I obviously went to the wrong maternity hospital, we were lucky to get a cup of tea!

Dad made stout for my mum in the early 80s. She didn’t drink them all though, and they found some in the shed in the mid 2000s. He entered it into the local horticulture show in the home brew section (didn’t win )

I remember my midwife telling me to drink Guinness - and DH brought some into the hospital after DS was born. All of us new mums were swigging back several bottles of the stuff every day!

You people round here call their pushchairs prams. We used to have pushchairs/buggies and actual prams.

Pram comes from perambulator, which is Victorian/Edwardian.

Saltburn (north east) has a cliff lift, before the major re-furb a few years back you were charged for the perambulator. So we would pay for the 2 adults then something like 50p for the pram. They have since changed that but the sign always used to make me smile.

You people round here call their pushchairs prams. We used to have pushchairs/buggies and actual prams.

Same here. People bellowing "get in the pram!" at their 3 or 4 year old.

In the North West, around Barrow they call a pushchair/buggy a trolley.

I remember my Mum having a cupboard full of stout IN HOSPITAL in the 80's - for the iron apparently. So up until relatively recently

Midwife recommended Guiness to my sister post birth in 1994!
She hated it

I'm another one who's Mum was told to drink Guinness for the iron content. I was born in 1985. By all accounts she hated it.

apparently pregnant and nursing women used to be encouraged to drink Guinness because it is supposed to have lots of iron in it!

When I had my babies in the early 70's, I was issued with a daily bottle of Guinness or Mackeson in the hospital, as I was one of the few women in my ward who was breastfeeding"

Hmmph. I was breastfeeding and I wasn't given Mackeson or Guiness. That's not fair!
Mackeson was OK I found.

The progression in the 70s/80s was pram, pushchair then buggy, the Maclaren was like a little plastic deckchair of wheels but was easy to fold and very lightweight. I can remember being very surprised at the complexity of modern whatever-they're-called-nowadays, poor children can hardly move a muscle.
My mother who had her children in late 40s/early 50s always swore by stout.