Sheila

Ariadne I have many happy memories of childhood holidays in Nottingham as one of my aunts married her dashing RAF boyfriend and they decided to live in his hometown.

kitty. Just don't tell Sheila .

I am imagining the looks I would get from family were I to say"I'm just going to hang these clothes on Sheila", it's the name of a close friend

We had a ponch too - that was in Nottingham where I spent the first 19 years of my life before escaping!

But, seriously, the drudgery of washday beggars belief as we potter to washing machine and tumble driers etc. My mother and grandmother spent every Monday washing, using the kitchen sinks, a sink tub, and a mangle. And yes, I too remember wet wash days, and the steam and smell.

I have a pulley in the utility room, underneath it is a chest freezer, so it all dries quickly. This past week it has been used quite a lot, I would not be without it

We didn't have room for an airer so wet days brought out the clothes horses in front of two fires and I HATED it and still remember the smell of wet washing and steamed up windows. We also had a ponch not a posser, it was made of copper with holes in the bottom flat surface. As lona said the good old days! May they never come back.

We just called it a rack, and we had a dolly tub, mangle and a posser.
Ahh....... the good old days!

Agus, I think 'Sheila' is old fashioned!!

My mum had one and we never called it anything other than a pulley. I wish I had room for one.

Er.....Something to grow the hydrangea in, Ana

What did you call your dolly tub then, merlot?

My granny never had a pulley, but she did have a big dolly tub in the wash-house and the plunger and the dolly-blue would be employed on washday (Monday, of course!). She also had a mangle and a Maiden...

Ours was just called The Drying Rack

We had one in the farmhouse and we called it Dolly.

I have always had a 'pulley' . I also heard it called a Sheila on that programme Mrs Mopp and I thought, silly modern speak. A pulley is a pulley. Just call me old fashioned

Who are you calling old-fashioned, MrsMopp???

Mine hasn't got a name but it hangs from the ceiling in my utility room next to the central heating boiler and I love it!

When I bought mine it was called a Sheila. But that was 25 years ago. The very first one I had was actually a Sheila as the supports spelt it out!

I love mine and use it/her all the time!!

the one mum had when we where small was just called a "pulley" ,it was the centre of the kitchen some days as mum would put any washing on it if it was raining,she would start with the underwear/ thin cottons & sheets that had been "mangled" to death and get them dried then dads overall's.Ours was wooden slats and the rope was tied to the wall by the side of the open fire in the kitchen.

I think Sheila is the original brand name. Ours had no name because we made it ourselves out of broom sticks.