Many people ask me to
Wake them up each morn
Rapping on their windows
Often before dawn….
a peashooter to wake people up.
Alarm clocks were expensive and unreliable
London 1930’s
Don Matthews
October 2021
The Knocker-Upper Lady
a peashooter to wake people up.
Alarm clocks were expensive and unreliable
London 1930’s
Flippant, Comic, and Serious 
Haha what a great idea…later the paper boy took over the tradition by throwing newspaper to the widow.
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How interesting. Shit love was that glass shattering?…….
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*window
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Wow! That took aim and precision. 🙂
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I’d love that job! 😊🖤
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You’d have to be up at 4am……in a mid winter London ….still interested?
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The 4am start wouldn’t be an issue for an insomniac like me..
But London? Not sure about that 😉🖤
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