maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

Ah yes Missfoodlove, I also remember making a den with it. When my DB and I were about 10 we put our savings together and raised 19/6d and bought a new one for mum's birthday (she must have been thrilled) - It was like a wooden concertina that rose from the floor. I used it myself for many years after I was married

I still call it the maiden.

We referred to the hanging one over the range as a maiden.
The clothes horse was floor standing and was used to make dens when we were children.

Clothes horse here in central Scotland, but my Ayrshire daughter-in-law calls it a winterdyke.

My nan called it a maiden as does DD3. My nan was from Lancashire and I suspect that dd3 got it from her Black Country partner.

We used to call it a clothes horse. I've not got one now but would call it a airer.

I have a pulley in the utility room.

In bygone days in Scotland washing was dried outside on the wall or ‘dyke’. Impossible to do this in winter so a clothes horse/airer was used indoors, hence a dyke for the winter-winterdyke.

North West here....we said a clothes horse.

I grew up in the northwest and we had a “maiden” and a “rack” which came down from the ceiling. I’ve lived in the south all my adult life and I now have an “ airer”

I've heard the expression 'maiden' before Fennel but not for many years.
Clothes horse, airer, are ones I use. Winter Dykes is interesting paddyann do you know how that evolved ?
We just called the hanging one a pulley.

We had a pulley above the rayburn which was raised and lowered when needed. My mother dried the bed linen and towels on it when it was too rainy to dry outside on the line. We never owned a clothes horse.

Winter Dykes here in West of Scotland ,I have my OH's granny's and they are used daily

NE - clothes horse.
A lot of people also had a rack which hung up near the fire in the kitchen called a stretcher. Pulled up and down on pulleys.

Just the 'airer' down South!