Yes, a long pole with sometimes a wire on the end ,to sort of scratch at the glass,if that got no response then the pole was tapped on the glass.
I think the knocker upper near us was also the lamplighter and lampturner offer,hence the wire,
There were still lots of gas lamps well into the 1960’s.
A nice young man near us always took it upon himself to climb up and turn the gas light on,as there were two sisters who were both blind living in our street .
He worried if the lamp was not lit in time they might bump into it.
He was not in mainstream school but was a gifted concertina player and entertained the long queue
waiting on Friday nights after the cinemas had finished,for fish and chips.
Do you know I can hear him now playing Nelly Dean,a ‘ “chucking out “song in the local hostelries.
It all comes flooding back.
Knocker Upper, what a super job description,
Viktoria.
