A knocker-upper was a person whose primary job it was to wake people up by shooting dried peas at their windows

A knocker-upper was a person whose primary job it was to wake people up by shooting dried peas at their windows

. In the 1930s, Mary Smith earned six pence a week waking the dockers of Limehouse, London. This very famous photograph captured by John Topham was the first he ever licensed. He sold it for five pounds (a week's wages back then) to the Daily Mirror, and decided to give up his career as a policeman and become a freelance photographer for the rest of his life.

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