A Dublin knocker up, unspecified date (early 20th Century).
He had no ‘snooze’ button.
Via vintage site Rare Irish Stuff
A knocker-up (sometimes known as a knocker-upper) was a profession in 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… 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.
Thanks Spaghetti Hoop
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But who wakes him?
the coast guard
Was the one bloke with an alarm clock / lived near a military installation with an alarm at a certain time / utter insomniac
The knocker-up would not leave a client’s window until they were sure that the client had been awoken.
Unless the client refused to budge & the knocker upper had other clients to wake surely.
now known as your Ma
But who knocked up your Ma
Nik nak paddy wack gave your ma the bone.
Code Red : We have a curtain twitcher snooping in the window on the downstairs right. That or it’s a ghost.
The blushin’ bride, she looks divine
The bridegroom he is doin’ fine
I’d rather have his job than mine
When I’m knockin’ up windows
How long do you recon he had to stand pretending to knock that window for?
What if the bedroom was at the back of the house?
U shaped extendable arm with lever activated knocking device
Early version of the selfie stick.