In Victorian England, most people didn’t have clocks or watches. They had no way of knowing when to get up. This brought into existence the profession called knocking-upping.
A knocker-upper walked down the street and tapped on the windows with a long pole or a broom.
People paid him a penny a month. AI tells me that it’s around 50-75 cents in today’s money.
For some reason, I’m finding the existence of a knocker-upper to be very endearing.
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