A knocker-upper was someone whose sole purpose was to wake people up during a time when alarm clocks were expensive and not very reliable. In this photo, Mary Smith earned six pence a week using a pea shooter to shoot dried peas at the windows of sleeping workers in East London, 1930s. She would not leave a window until she was sure that the workers had woken up. #history#blackandwhitephotography
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'Forested Escarpment' (2023) -- the Illawarra Coastal Mountains Slope Steadily Downwards Towards the Sea... Covered in the Mighty Eucalyptus, Royal National Park, NSW, Australia
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'A Home on the Great Domaine' (2023) -- Sydney's Great Domaine and Adjacent Botanical Gardens Are Peppered With Massive, Uniquely Beautiful, Morton Bay Fig Trees, Sydney, NSW, Australia