maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

My Gran called hers a maiden too.

In West Yorkshire, creel was the dialect word for a wooden dryer suspended from the ceiling.

It was just “the clothes horse” in our house.

Standing one is a maiden and the one on the ceiling is a clothes rack- a mix of N W Lancs and Cumbria I think.

Grew up in Yorkshire where it was called a clothes-horse. I still call it that today.

I grew up in Lancashire and the term ‘maiden’ was used by my Grandma and Mother. Had to use the word airer or clothes horse once we moved further South. Barm cakes are another term no one understood, calling them baps still seems strange to me.

You can still get the pulley ones that go up to the ceiling. They're quite 'retro' these days.

My mother had a maiden. My dad made it. I have two airers that I bought in Sainsbury's. They are telescopic so they take very little space to store.

Called it a clothes horse in Yorkshire where I grew up. One of our relatives from Northumberland used to call it "the screen". I had a Flatley electric drying cabinet in the late 60s for drying my babies nappies.

Not sure what the pulley one was called.

I come from Kent/south London. It was called a clothes horse.

live in the north west, we always called it a maiden, my nan had a pulley above the coal fire and remember helping to stretch and fold sheets before they were put on the pulley. she also had a mangle in the outhouse, many a time not only did my dolls clothes go into it but my fingers!

We have a clothes horse and a sheilamaid (a rack and pulley).

I always called it a "maiden", frankie74. So did my Ma. Never anything else.

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

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

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

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

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Clothes horse

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.

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]

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.

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

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.