[G6Tanuki]

Speaking of driers, does anyone remember the "Flatley" ?? it was a sort-of small electrically-heated, ventilated wardrobe you hung wet clothes in to dry. They were unpredictable in terms of operating temperature - not nylon-football-shorts-friendly, as a schoolmate discovered.

Then there was the "Sheila-maid", a wooden frame you put your wet clothes on before winching it up to the ceiling using ropes and pulleys. Fine if you lived in a house with sensibly-high Victorian style ceilings, but if the ceiling was only the usual 20th-century-build 7-foot-six high you'd end up dodging round dangling wet stockings and shirts.

The coming of tumble-driers spelled inevitable death to such things.