Who woke her up tho? 
A 'Knocker-up' was hired to ensure that people would wake up on time for their jobs. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers' windows in East London in the 1930spic.twitter.com/8tdsMXuxkO
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They stayed up all night. I saw a video about it recently:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZGNf6zIO-8&t=0s&list=LLJuGlqP6WGqYz36ELKVeYbA&index=154 …
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Great, thanks!
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That wouldn't wake me. She'd have to chuck a full tin of peas through my window.
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A closed tin even
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She looks like she would.
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"blow your peas against my window in the early hours of the morning, Mary" is something I'd expect to see in the
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And I can see why.
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Paid much less was the Nocker-Up Snooze apprentice, who came by five minutes later.
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The better job was the Knocker-upper's Knocker-upper.
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I've always wondered where all the dried peas in my front garden come from.
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better than dried pees
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this is true, lol.
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Is that gross or net after deducting the cost of dried peas. Looking for a career change.
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Sixpence a week? You'd earn more than that in the 1530's
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She's a woman Christy................
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We only make a ha'penny on the tuppence
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Me, an intellectual, trying to figure out if that’s good.pic.twitter.com/q5kqYubdJX
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