Pram canopy
Morlands
Category
Childcare objects
Date
Unknown
Materials
Fabric, metal and cardboard.
Measurements
Canopy - 620 mm (length); 540 mm (width), Box - 570 mm (width); 620 mm (height)
Place of origin
Glastonbury
Order this imageCollection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 662336
Summary
A folding pram sun canopy with its original box. The outer cotton cover has a brown, yellow, pink and green floral design on a neutral background lined with green cotton. The whole edge has a neutral coloured fringe. A string, ending with a leather tab at each end, is fixed to the centre point front and back to attach the frame to the pram. It is mounted onto a folding metal frame. A double ribbed metal arm is fixed to each side of the canopy to attach the canopy to a pram. This has a locating nut to hold the arm in position. The original white box has a coloured illustration on each side which consists of the manufacturer’s name at the top, description of contents and town of manufacture, all in black printing ink. There is an illustration of a woman pushing a pram, in black printing ink and a swirling background design in yellow and orange printing ink. Each end of the box has the Moorlands name and on one end, the price, '£5', and a description of the contents. Total number of items is 2.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Gladys Bould in October 2005.
Makers and roles
Morlands , maker