maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

Clothes horse. (South Yorkshire).

I thought those outside loos were called middens!

A maiden hangs from the ceiling and gets lowered on a pully system. A clothes horse/airer is free standing.

The pulley type is sometimes called a Sheila maid - though I think that may be a brand name sheilamaid.com/ Not sure which came first in naming it - maiden or Sheila maid.

We always had one when I was growing up, and have one in the kitchen now - we call it the pulley line, never maiden. The clothes horse was always the freestanding type.

A clothes horse (Midlands)

I remember Kirstie Allsop, in one of her house hunting programmes, coveting a Sheila Maid airer. The woman being shown round, hated it, and Kirstie offered to buy it from her!

The pull-up-down airer over our coal range was called a creel. The free standing one was a clothes horse.

All our neighbours said creel but I've never heard it since so perhaps a local dialect word?

My gran had a pulley.
My mum had a clothes horse, a wooden pull up
concertina thingy.
I have a fold in half airer which I only use outside to dry washing when clothes line is full.

Ahh I have question.
I said clothes line.
My grandmothers and mother said clothes rope
(probably because it was it was made of rope unlike my modern pull out plastic line)
My mother in law said washing line
What do GNers call their clothes washing line?

I don't have one. When I did it was called a clothes line.

Kitty yes, the outside loos were called middens.

My great aunt called it a winterhedge. It was a clothes horse at home and the pull down thingy was a creel. Mum was born in Leeds so maybe it came from that area?

Clothes horse.. Herts/Bucks.

Washing line.

clothes horse Northern Ireland.

A clothes horse and the rack above the fire place a pulley

Clothes Horse - London and the South East.

Washing Line.

Clothes horse for the low one.
Maiden for the concertina.
Pulley for the line high in the kitchen fixed with a cleat, where you wind the rope. We have one and use it every day.
We had a Flatly electric hot cabinet when we were young marrieds. I hung the nappies in it when it was impossible to dry them outside. We lived in a top floor flat..

My West Yorkshire mother-in-law had a creel. Very useful it was.

Oh my had forgotten the maiden! I was born in liverpool and we had a maiden and pully thing in kitchen - you'd think the clothes wd collect food smells! Here in oz i hve a clothes airer.

I dry clothes on a "whirly" outside.

Mum hung hers "on the line". It was a length of rope with rope pulleys attached to a pair of concrete posts which all council houses in our area had. Mum was posh though as her line was attached to the pulleys with cleats and she would unhook it and store it in the shed when not in use to keep it clean.

Clothes horse. From Leicester and around.

Parents grew up in London and I always knew it as a clothes horse.

My modern large plastic wire 'clothes horse' I dry clothes on now is referred to as 'the clothes dryer'

Airing was done in the airing cupboard, constantly warm because the hot water tank (uninsulated) was in it.

It was a clothes horse in our house.

I have a pulley in a clever, hidden space. It is amazing fir drying clothes in winter or simply airing them. Refuse to have a tumble dryer.

Its either Airer or Clothes horse here.

In Glasgow the midden was where the bins were kept, (presumably in earlier days it would have been a pile of rotting garbage mixed with ashes from the fire) usually next to the wash house where the communal boiler/s for the close resided. (Most workers lived in tenement flats). The back court had washing lines up permanently and each house had an allocated day to use the wash house and lines.
In the kitchen there was a bed recess and in front of the range there was a pulley to hang the washing on. A wooden, concertina style contraption was called the clothes horse which was mainly used to dry baby items.

I remember the Flatley Grammaretto We couldn't afford one though. Nappies blowing on the clothes line all pristine, a lovely sight.