maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

I have a pull-down one suspended from the kitchen ceiling. It is called a Sheila Maid.

We had a saying, "I'm so tired I could sleep on a clothes line!" grandtanteJE65 (Liverpool/Southport)

Our clothes horses looked like this. I didn't get a concertina one until the mid 1970s.

We called the lines in the garden clothes lines, but I have heard washing line as well. Why not drying lines, I wonder, after all they hung on the drying-green!

We called ours clothes horses in the Glasgow area, and the pulleys were called pulleys,

I miss having a pulley so much that I have persuaded DH to make me one.

North West here. We had a 'Maiden' and a 'Rack'.
The maiden made a good play tent covered with a blanket when we were little.

Deep South here - clothes horse

Wobbles I had forgotten all about the Flatley. Yes, Mum had one and used it for years.
Lincolnshire here, and the folding rack was always a clothes horse, and still is for me, no matter what shape.
We have a pulley dryer in the breakfast room, and is always known as the 'overhead

North West here. We had a 'maiden' and a 'rack'. In summer the maiden made a good tent to play in when covered in a blanket.

I tend to still call it a maiden...was brought up with everyone saying maiden..in Lancashire..

Maiden and a rack for us, the rack was the most used both for drying clothes and airing them after ironing. If I had a utility room I would definitely have a rack, it was so useful.
I'm for the North West by the way

My gran and mum came from north west ( Manchester/Stockport area) and they called it ‘maiden’ but quite often mum would say just ‘clothes horse’ ...never airer though

Gabriella I had one of those and used it as a towel rail! We had a wooden hinged effort that was always the clothes horse at home. The one I have now is a concertina type metal and is the 'airer'.

Clothes horse down here. Maiden was the one suspended from the ceiling I think.

We had one that pulled down from the ceiling and my mum called it SHEILA .... i thought Auntie Sheila had given it to us ....
Until recently when i say them being advertised as SHEILA'S
htg wish mum was still alive and we could have laughed about it ...

Clothes horse in Somerset

Maiden here in Lancashire. Always when I was a child and still is in my house.

Here in Cheshire it's a clothes horse, but DGM was from Lancashire and always called it a maiden!
We had a pulley which raised and lowered just in front of the black leaded range in the parlour. In the days before we had a washing machine of any sort, washing would be done in the 'dolly tub' in the scullery, put through the mangle (which got it drier than any modern spin dryer can) then dried on the line in summer, or the pulley in winter. The clothes horse or maiden was only ever used in our house to 'air' clothes, never actually to dry them.

Clothes airer. And a pulley in the bathroom

I’m from Salford and they have always been maidens in my house.

My mother in law called hers a winter hedge. She came from a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire. She told me that her mother would dry clothes and sheets on the garden hedge in the summer and the wooden winter hedge was used in the winter. I still have it and it is very useful, makes a lovely tent for the grandchildren.!!

Grew up in Manchester, definitely a maiden, though no idea why.

They're quite 'retro' these days.
They are, lizzypopbottle. My DD2 really wanted to instal her grandma's creel in her own home when grandma's house had to be sold, but the quote for the work was way too high.

I get a great deal of pleasure pegging out on the line in the sun! Don’t understand it but it really warms my cockles!

I’m Lancashire as well, so clothes horse/maiden and rack which went up the ceiling. We had a Flatley when we were first married and now I have a Lakeland heated clothes airer- same thing really.

It's always been a clothes horse to me, and my Mum before me. We did have a pulley in the kitchen when we were children. Must admit, I get a daft sense of satisfaction from pegging washing out on the line.

In the Black Country it would be a clothes Oss.