The is not miss spelt; it is the high-pitched cry of a The Climbing Boys at 3:30am as they walked to clean the first chimney of the day.
There are many traditions associated with Chimney Sweeps, which are still with us today, but there are others, which are lost in antiquity.
One of the reasons was the puritans believed Sweeps were unclean so like witches they could persecuted.
It was not until the "Georgian" period during the "gin riots" when King George II was being attacked by a rioting mob of angry people shouting "NO GIN! NO KING!" The Kings horse bolted and the only person who came to his rescue was a humble Sweep, he steadied the horse and saved the Kings life. For the intervention of this lowly Sweep, it would have been lucky for the King to be alive. Before the King could reward him, he vanished into the squalid back streets of London. The King decreed that from that day, all Sweeps would have bestowed on them, the Talisman of "Lucky Sweep". The Master Sweep would buy a Boy/Girl as an apprentice from a widowed mother or the workhouse. Their day would start with a bowl of porridge. By 3.00am he would start cleaning the first of many chimneys. some boys died in those chimneys; If he did not work fast enough a smokey hay fire would be lit beneath him. By 6.00am the fires had to be lit for the households breakfast. The Sweep would then spend most of the day in gin houses or touting for future business.
The Sweep had one holiday a year, May day when bands of Sweeps would parade around the towns and city's singing and dancing, accompanied by fife and drum along with "Jack O' Green the mythological spirit of forests and fields (tree of life), he wore a green costume which was decked out with flowers, herbs and flags. The practice of using Climbing Boys was eventually stopped in the late 19th-Centuary when brushes became more popular. The oldest Climbing Boy died in 1955 at the age of 105 (he must of had a kind Master).
LUCKY SWEEP WEDDINGS portray Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Sweeps and Climbing Boys/Girls in the attire of the period.