Before alarm clocks, you could hire a knocker-upper to wake you in the morning

In 1969, my dad got stationed to the US airbase in Mildenhall, England. We went on a holiday to Wales the summer of 1970. Our first night we stayed at a B&B in LLangollen, run a kindly older lady who asked my parents, “what time do you wish to be knocked up?” My parents told that story for years.

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