All work and no play...

The maker of sand views is the person I want to talk to.

I do know what the "Knocker up of work people" job is.
That's someone who's paid to knock on door & windows to wake up people who didn't have alarm clocks, so they would be up on time for work.

Edited at 2020-11-21 01:29 am (UTC)

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XDDD

maybe some of this is the 1800s version of "amateur gynecologist" and the like

Edited at 2020-11-21 02:19 pm (UTC)

One has to wonder ...

I'm wondering about "electric bath attendant". An electric bath sounds kind of dangerous. An electric bath attendant sounds like a robot.

A knocker-up is a very well-known job, I'm not sure how that confused the London Genealogical Society. It was a person armed with a long pole who went from house to house, knocking on bedroom windows to tell people that it was time to get up for work. It was a very important job in north with all the mill towns. There's some pictures of knockers-up here.

I wonder if random waller is a misspelling of wallah, that's a Hindi word for a person who has a particular job, such as chaiwallah - a person who serves tea, or a punkawallah - a person who operates a fan (punkah). It came into British usage via India.