Here's the bizarre way people woke up before alarm clocks

Waking up and going to work has been a thing much longer than alarm clocks have been popular so how did people manage to roll out of bed in time in centuries past?

They hired so called knocker-uppers.

That was a particularly popular practice in Industrial Age Britain, where it was common to see people wandering the streets and knocking on doors and windows with sticks.

Some even used pea shooters and dried peas.