A doll's pram from years gone by
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (366498)
Rockingham, Australia
October 15, 2025 7:28pm CST
Kerosene tins were once very common in Western Australia. Once emptied, the tins, which I think held four gallons, would be used for all sorts of purposes other than holding kerosene. They would be cobbled together to make cupboards and containers.
In the photo, one has been fashioned into a doll’s pram. It was part of the display in the Westonia Museum. I don’t know how the wheels were made. Although it looks very battered now, I’m sure it looked much better when it was first made. I can imagine a little girl being thrilled to receive this. Bought toys were few and far between for most country children living around the turn of last century.
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@FourWalls (80680)
• United States
16 Oct
That’s so neat. Those were the days when things were repurposed because of limited resources (or money, or both). There was a coal mining museum here that had flour sack dresses on display (after using the flour, the flour sack would be used to make clothes). Our great-grandparents were extremely resourceful!!!
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@BarBaraPrz (50851)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
16 Oct
The wheel were cut using tin snips or wire cutters or something of the sort, same as the pram's arms would have been.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17077)
• China
16 Oct
It is a unique style of doll’s pram ! They utilized the emptied kerosene tins to the utmost extent.
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@RasmaSandra (91423)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
16 Oct
I like that pram I have seen some Victorian movies with babies in prams like that,
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@Marilynda1225 (87192)
• United States
16 Oct
That doll pram certainly is interesting. Amazing how they took those kerosene tins and repurposed them into a pram.
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@Deepizzaguy (116449)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
16 Oct
A very strange doll in a pram on this post.
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