Yes, many years ago.

Grandparents and neighbours had them.
We just had a single line suspended across the room near the open fire from picture rail to picture rail. Not dead easy to reach though.

YESsssssssssssssssssssssss i think most people in glasgow had a ceiling clothes dryer in the kitchen. ours used to have my mums dried bouquet of flowers from when she got married hanging off it.

If I remember correctly, the clothes ended up smelling of whatever you had been cooking.

Gypsie, are you originally from Glasgow?

I don't have one but I know someone who has. I wouldn't mind one .... very practical

Oh that's sweet.

Yeah - a pulley 

That's what we called it, too.

Yes,I'm in Glasgow and we still have ours.I use it all the time.We have a back garden so line dry clothes,in bad weather we use the "Pulley" as it's called up here.Better than those silly wee plastic coated metal stand up thingies.
I have a tumble dryer,but I  rarely use it,it frickin' burns up the leccy.
Our houses are due to be all re- structured and modernised next year,so I'll probably lose it.Some blocks in the street have been started on.Punters get de-canted for four months,it's a major job.
We had the big bleedin' drill machines in the garden just after the new year,searching for old coal mines.Smaller versions of those big machines being used in Chile.

yeah im glasgow born and bred

Well my late mum never used it when the dinner was on,lol.

 I never knew you were Scottish, too.

They'll probably find a group of Glaswegian miners down there who've been surviving on nowt but the Buckie flowing down though the drains for 50 years.

 That's obviously where we went wrong.

Got a pulley , yep, it's good

Gypsie sounds like Mary Doll.  Trufax 

Bateman these houses were built in 1920,nae Buckie then! I actually did a bit of research,this area at one time was nothing but coal  mines ,a lot of them open cast.The mines once supplied Glasgow with all its coal,industrial and otherwise in the 18th century.

I don't believe it! ( a la Victor Meldrew stylee).

Glasgow's riddled with coal mines.  I wouldn't touch the east end for exactly that reason.

She does!   

 Okay, you've convinced me.

I cant believe you didnt know that yogi x

My mum wouldn't use ours it just sat up there with grease and dust gathering on it. We had a back yard where you could hang your washing out but we were so high up my mum had this 'contraption' that was a line with a clothes poll that stuck out the back window (i bet a few of you know what i mean ) . It was okay till the cat tried to catch a bird that landed on it and fell amazingly the cat survived unscathed.

aye

Never lived with overhead drier... but would love that Aga

See, case proved.  Next!

I know, I can't believe I didn't realise.
I should have known there was a good reason I like you.

 Hi there Yogi

Hi Baz, I hope you are well.
 I noticed that today is significant for you, sending you a big hug. (My hug smilie has disappeared)

Awww thanks Yogi How are you? Missed you in the SCD thread

I have the family for dinner on Sundays, so it's difficult to get on the forum.
I did catch the show and was surprised at the bottom two. I honestly thought Paul Daniels would be first to go.

Ditto.......

My brother and sister in law have one, in their kitchen.

Their clothes smell of gin and curry.

I have a pulley I still use in a wee utility room off my kitchen along with my tumble dryer,I can remember the pole with the rope oot the windae I had one in my first flat when I got married

Its called a rack where i come from and can remember my old aunts/grandparents having them. Watching them hauling up a rack full of clothes then tying it off and venturing underneath it made me cringe. but- as heat rises, then it must be a great way to dry clothes on the cheap in this day and age. Got me thinking to install one myself.

I'd like a nice rack.

never had one, great idea though..can remember gran had an outside loo in ye olen days

We used to have one above the bath when we were small. I can still remember being in the bath with the washing dripping cold drops of water on me. I am 47 and we had it up until we left that house when I was 14. We also still had an outside toilet when we left there. They modernised them after we left and put it inside.

We had a pulley many years ago, in the loo....it wasnt fun having a bath dodging the cold drips! My mum washed everything by hand , dont know how she did it. We are so spoilt now...