HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year ago

'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915

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'Knocker-Upper' in Britain, a method of waking people up for their work shifts before reliable/cheap alarm clocks, 1915

HistoryPornEnglish • 1 year ago

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6•1 year ago
you mean “hangover” (scroll ~halfway down), not layover.
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  4•1 year ago
  Hah right thing wrong name, my apologies.

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