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| daib0 | 8 Dec 2015, 01:58 PM Post #1 |
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Unusual profession coming up here ... A knocker-up (sometimes known as a knocker-upper) was a profession in Britain and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution and at least as late as the 1920s before alarm clocks were affordable or reliable. A knocker-up's job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time. The knocker-up used a truncheon or a long and light stick, often made of bamboo, to reach windows on higher floors. In return, the knocker-up would be paid a few pence a week. The knocker-up would not leave a client's window until they were sure that the client had been awoken. But who woke the knocker-upper up? Stephen Fry said that the knocker-upper's knocker-up was a person who didn't sleep at night and woke the knocker-upper up in the early hours of the morning. He was paid a farthing a week by the knocker-upper. There were several knockers-uppers and one knocker's upper's knocker up would knock up more than one knocker-upper and so earn several farthings a night. ![]() |
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