england Archives - Eirini Lachana Eirini Lachana, photography Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:22:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://eirinilachana.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-2-32x32.jpg england Archives - Eirini Lachana 32 32 Knocker-uppers / Before the alarm clocks https://eirinilachana.com/knocker-uppers-before-the-alarm-clocks/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:21:41 +0000 https://eirinilachana.com/?p=1284 A Knocker-upper, was a profession in Britain and Ireland that started during and lasted well into the Industrial Revolution, when alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, and to as late as the beginning of the 1920s. A knocker-up’s job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time. The knocker-up used a baton or short, […]

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