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'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915 (media.piefed.social)

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'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915

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[–] siravious@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wonder who woke him up..

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[–] Blueshift@piefed.world 16 points 1 year ago

That was a question on QI at some point. Someone with a night shift woke up the first knocker upper as the last job before they went to bed

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[–] anyhow2503@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Knocker-Upper-Knocker-Upper

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