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Knocker up

we lived in Copeley street a (cul -de -sac) Aston, and we had a knocker upper who lived in the Street her name was Polly Foster, l know my family never used her but a lot of our neighbours did, l think she was still doing it when l left in 1958,....l have never had an alarm clock always woke up on time.
Polly was my great aunt she lived at No 17.
 
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