General Chat

Of course, nothing to do with washing at all - unless you air your socks on it. LOL

Debby... us yorkshire lasses know we are right ...don't we??? lol Anne :)))

Aye we do that lass! Hasn't come up on google though lol!

Honey Rum The one we had fits your description but we called it a rack I'm from Manchester Pat

Dan If you mean the one that hung on the ceiling and you pulled up and down on a pulley . We used to call it the clothes rack. The one that stood on the floor was clothes horse or if you were posh the maiden. Germaine x

Well I've still got my Mum's pulley and use it all the time. It's near the boiler with the wooden struts shortened and I wouldn't be without it. I can take out a load of washing, often at night, put it on the pulley and it's dry by morning. Beats my drier any time. And it dries for free !

I agree Jill do miss my mum's old one even if they were dripping wet, by morning absolutely dry, mind you trying to miss all the drips well that was another thing, then the wonderful washing machine came along and no more drips! Norah

Veronica - that wooden three legged thing was called a Dolly peg. I remember my MIL using one donkeys years ago. I also remember that my Mum used to keep her dolly tub upside down outside for some reason on a wheelbarrow and one day the cat got between the two. End of cat !!!

I'm with Pat, we in Oldham always called it a rack..and I still have two sets but without the wood pieces that the clothes hung on usually hung from the front room cieling in front of the fire were you made toast on a toasting fork to the drip drip on your head

honey rum ive always called it a creel lynnx

Sounds like you've a choice then Daniel! Creel if your story is based in Yorkshire - Rack if as I suspect your story is based in Lancashire! Debby

Well I don't know about the other Yorkshire lasses, but a Dolly Peg in our fair county was.... A POSSER... I remember we had a copper bottom one!! My kids used to crease up when I said I would poss em up and down ( hand washing) in the bowl!! And I still say it!! Anne:)))

tumble dryer

Kitchen maid. Louise

er.... i call them 'tumble dryers'...... SUE X

clothes horses arent they

We used to call ours in the kitchen The clothes rack, great big wooden thing it was, used to hold loads of things. Mother had a poss-tub and posser as well. Monday was a full wash -day all over the world lol and clothes got scubbed within an inch of their life When I married in the 60s i had a very modern 'posh' clothes rack,very light and plastic coated, not as serviceable as Mother's. Eeeh Daniel you've actually had a history lesson on this thread haven't you? Mau x:0))))

You Yorkshire lasses!!! I'm married to one mind you but a posser was the one with the copper bottom and the dolly peg had three legs. I've got a mini posser somewhere in the garage ----- but my Yorkie doesn't 'quite know where'.!!!!

My friend has just added one of those pulley clothes driers to her Victorian terraced house, over the high stair well, so the students she lets the house to, can hang up their clothes from the washing machine (well spun) and not drape them over the lovely wooden banister rails. You can buy them from Argos and other stores. i have one ready to put up in the self same position -thought of it before she did but haven't got round to fitting it yet.

my mum had baby birko washer, and a huge clothes airer that had rods in to hang washing over or thread through, and put lid on to dry washing in heat, i could do with this now as tumble dryer is still broken though hubby tried to fix it last night