Ancient Artefacts

Some time in the 1970s I was sitting in the dining room of avery old pub in Wiltshire enjoying my meal.  Hanging on the wall opposite me was a number of brass and iron objects from bygone days.  Two of these looked vaguely familiar.  They looked like black iron coat hangers but I couldn't think where I had previously seen them.  When I reached home I went into the kitchen to put the kettle on and there hanging from the ceiling were my two "coat hangers".   They held the rails of my clothes drier which hung from the ceiling and were raised up and down by means of a pulley.  No wonder I thought they looked familiar!  In the days before tumble driers they were in valuable and during the 1950s were usually festooned with towelling nappies (before the invention of pampers). I must confess to being a bit put out to find my useful  drier being classed as ancient artefacts.  In my friend's house their ceiling drier hung over the Aga and she and her sister would make a mad rush into their kitchen to rescue their undies  before the fumes of frying bacon rose upward.  Those were the days!!.