maiden, clothes-horse or something else?

We had one that pulled down from the ceiling and my mum called it SHEILA .... i thought Auntie Sheila had given it to us ....
Until recently when i say them being advertised as SHEILA'S
htg wish mum was still alive and we could have laughed about it ...

Clothes horse down here. Maiden was the one suspended from the ceiling I think.

Gabriella I had one of those and used it as a towel rail! We had a wooden hinged effort that was always the clothes horse at home. The one I have now is a concertina type metal and is the 'airer'.

My gran and mum came from north west ( Manchester/Stockport area) and they called it ‘maiden’ but quite often mum would say just ‘clothes horse’ ...never airer though

Maiden and a rack for us, the rack was the most used both for drying clothes and airing them after ironing. If I had a utility room I would definitely have a rack, it was so useful.
I'm for the North West by the way

I tend to still call it a maiden...was brought up with everyone saying maiden..in Lancashire..

North West here. We had a 'maiden' and a 'rack'. In summer the maiden made a good tent to play in when covered in a blanket.

Wobbles I had forgotten all about the Flatley. Yes, Mum had one and used it for years.
Lincolnshire here, and the folding rack was always a clothes horse, and still is for me, no matter what shape.
We have a pulley dryer in the breakfast room, and is always known as the 'overhead

Deep South here - clothes horse

North West here. We had a 'Maiden' and a 'Rack'.
The maiden made a good play tent covered with a blanket when we were little.

We called ours clothes horses in the Glasgow area, and the pulleys were called pulleys,

I miss having a pulley so much that I have persuaded DH to make me one.

Our clothes horses looked like this. I didn't get a concertina one until the mid 1970s.

We called the lines in the garden clothes lines, but I have heard washing line as well. Why not drying lines, I wonder, after all they hung on the drying-green!

We had a saying, "I'm so tired I could sleep on a clothes line!" grandtanteJE65 (Liverpool/Southport)

I have a pull-down one suspended from the kitchen ceiling. It is called a Sheila Maid.

In Liverpool we had the rack and the clothes horse.

Down south ours was an airer, but the wooden one that folded out in a Z shape was the clothes horse. I have a friend from the NW and she calls it a Maiden, as do her daughters even though they were brought up in the south.

We called it a Clothes horse growing up in the Midlands. My Ayrshire MiL always called it a winterdyke. I now live west of Glasgow and nobody seems to have heard the word even though Ayrshire is just down the road!
I had a Flatley ~ loved it.

Our Mum had a Flatley drier, and used the slats to wallop us with if we were naughty...

Northwest born and bred - definitely 'maiden'. I still call it that even though I've lived in the southwest fir 40 years.

So that must be where the name Sheilamaid comes from.
The wooden airers that are hauled up and down on rope pulleys.

Yes same for me Ailsa43. I was brought up in Lanarkshire and we had a pulley in the kitchen and 2 clothes horses. I often wonder how our clothes didn’t smell of whatever was cooking! Or were we just used to it? I do have and use a clothes horse but thank goodness for tumble dryers!

I remember that we had a pulley in the kitchen of the house we lived in in until I was six. We also had a clothes horse which My Mum had for a long time until we had a flatly dryer. Does anyone else remember those? She also hung clothes on the washing line in the garden on fine days!

It's funny; I think we called it the clothes-horse, but I can't say for sure! We had a wooden accordion type. I remember the fresh scent of clothes brought in from the line outside that were still a bit damp.
Sometimes frozen laundry was brought in as well! Canadian winters with no electric dryer in the house.

We started going once a week to the laundry-mat once there were 4 children in the family!

My mother in Yorkshire called it a clothes horse, my Lancashire grandma said it was a maiden. It made a good tent in summer with a sheet over it!

I grew up in Manchester and we had a maiden and a rack over the fireplace. Must be a northern term as it's a clothes fairer in the south.