maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

Just the 'airer' down South!

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.

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

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.

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.

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”

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I still call it the maiden.

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

When I was a child in the northwest we had a clothes horse. I think it was a sort of floor-standing, folding wooden rack. The thing I remember best was a pulley with wooden slats that went up and down over the boiler, but I’m not sure what it was called.

I have heard of a maiden, but never heard the term winterdyke before. What a terrific word.

Maiden.

frankie74 My Mum had a wooden concertina type clothes horse too. We also had a Flatley, a tall metal box electric drier. You hung the clothes over wooden slats. Anyone else have one?

Clothes horse - Londoner.

Clothes horse in the West of Scotland when I was growing up, and Pulley hanging from the kitchen ceiling!!

Maiden when I was growing up in Liverpool,call it clothes airer now.Not sure when it changed!

Mum's home made one was called a clothes horse. She was from Bristol.
Here in S.E. I call mine an airer.

I've not heard of a "maiden".

Maiden, never heard of that, has anyone heard the term midden used for the flat roof over the outside loos that ran down the back to back houses in terraces?
Grandparents used to complain of tomcats singing on the middens.
The normal use of the word(historical) was the piles of rotting veg and excrement etc.?

In Scotland, we had a pulley attached to the ceiling in the kitchen and over the cooker. To my knowledge, nothing fell off on to the cooker setting the place on fire!

I think we also had a clothes horse. My mother hung clothes outside on the line even in frosty weather- everything was stiff when brought in.

Here in London I have an airer.

Same here Ailsa, on all counts!
I had a pulley in the utility room when our family were growing up, it was great for drying washing, I miss it where we live now but thankfully don’t have as much laundry!