My mother has been recollecting her early life in Barnsley and mentioned
that her father used to be woken up for work at Barnsley Main Colliery
by a "knocker up" who came round tapping on his bedroom window with a
long stick.
Does anyone know if these knockers up were employed by the collieries or
were they self-employed and paid by the people they woke?
Adrian Pearce
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