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Matters of Time
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The Knocker Upper
A knocker upper was someone with a good watch who would be paid small fee by various individual residents of a working class area to wake each of them up at a particular time, depending on when their shift started. They would go round with this really long, fine cane and just reach up to the upper floors of buildings and lightly tap on their customers window panes until they woke up. And always aiming, of course, to tap very gently, but not too gently. So this is ruth goodman.
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