maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

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

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

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!

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

Not sure what the pulley one was called.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

My Gran called hers a maiden too.

In the Black Country it would be a clothes Oss.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.!!

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

Clothes airer. And a pulley in the bathroom

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.

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

Clothes horse in Somerset