maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

Mum was a Londener and Dad a Yorkshireman and it was a clothes horse. It didn't look like a horse though!

Always called it the “airer”

Definitely 'maiden' for us too "up north"

Maiden in Wigan.

We called it a maiden and my mum still does but I now call it the clothes airer. We came from Cheshire

Clothes horse, but also know maiden (grew up in South)

washing line

Clothes horse here. A rickety old wooden thing held together with strips of what looked like canvas. My Mother was from Somerset.

We, SE, called it the clothes horse. Now I have an airer above the Aga, which is called Gnu.

My mum was from Liverpool and it was the clothes maiden. Here in Ireland it's clothes horse. Mum also talked about the airing cupboard, whereas here it's the hot press.

I have a pulley which is brilliant. I can't think of a house I have lived in without one. But we shall be on the move soon, and I was wondering if I need a tumble dryer or a clothes horse.

Clothes horse.
Pulley over the Rayburn.
Clothes line.
Hotpress.
I’m Irish.

Londoner here when we were children my Mum had a clothes horse which was great for making dens. When i fot married I had a concertina style aier which fitten on top of an electric heater to dry the clothes. When I moved to Norfolk therewas an airer on a pulley from the ceiling over the central heating boiler in the utility room which the previous owner called a maiden. Now I call my floor standing ones airers which most people in Portugal use to dry their wasing outside and that is called an estendal. I do have a washing line and airer though.

A maiden was a fold out or free standing clothes dryer/airer and the slatted overhead pulley operated thingy in the kitchen was called a rack in my Liverpool childhood.

frankie74 I'm also from the North West, and we called this large contraption a maiden. Coincidentally, my name is also frankie.

My mum (South) had a wooden concertina one and tended to overload it on wet days when she couldn't use the washing line. I can still hear her horrified shriek "the airer's fallen over!" we all rushed to the kitchen to rescue wet clothes from the floor.

I still call it a clothes horse!! Didn’t know it wasn’t anymore

We had a clothes horse (Essex) and a washing line with pulley in the garden rigged up by my Father. Can remember him pinning Catherine Wheels to the wooden posts on bonfire night.

Clothes horse for the wooden one that folded out, the one on a pulley hanging from the ceiling was called a creel,in our house,[Yorkshire]

This is what we called a clothes horse.
We had a polished wood one in the bathroom for towels and one in each bedroom to put your removed clothes on.

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Clothes horse

Clothes horse but really didn't have one in house when young, it was the pulley in the kitchen.

We had a 'maiden' (Lancashire) which was firstly a wooden three-piece folding arrangement, replaced by a wooden, then a metal/plastic concertina-type one. We also had 'the clothes rack', which pulled up to the ceiling. lastly we had a fire-guard which kept the children safe, and was also used as a dryer. This effectively meant that all the heat from the fire was blocked by wet clothes, so we hated it.
I have a modern concertina rack, but we call it the 'clothes airer' now.

Clothes maiden years ago here in Cumbria, or Lancashire as it was then.

Gabriella G we call that a towel rack and had it in the bathwoom.

Definitely a clothes-horse. And the traditional ones double as a tent frame for kids to put a blanket over and play in.