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The following people are or were notable Town criers. Pages in category "Town criers" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Town criers were protected by law, as they sometimes brought bad news such as tax increases. Anything done by the town crier was done in the name of the ruling monarch and harming a town crier was considered to be treason. [9] The phrase "don't shoot the messenger" was a real command. [9]
In the early 2000s, Appleton became the official town crier of Romford in Essex. [2] Appleton cites himself as the President of the Guild of International Millennium Town Criers on his website. [ 3 ] Appleton later had unofficial crier duties at the 2011 wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton , the 2012 Diamond Jubilee of Queen ...
Town criers, those Hear Ye heroes of breaking news, will gather in Provincetown on Oct. 7 for an event that is sure to be loud, colorful and involve a fair amount of bell ringing.. The ...
John Karsten, who served as Holland's town crier from 1979 to 2019, died Saturday. He was 85. John Karsten, who gave voice to Tulip Time as Holland's town crier for 40 years, dies at 85
Alan Myatt (born 1957) is an English town crier.He has set two Guinness World Records: the loudest crier, recording a cry of 112.8 decibels, [1] [2] and the Guinness world record for vocal endurance, issuing a one-hundred word proclamation every 15 minutes for a period of 48 hours.
Peter Moore (29 August 1939 – 20 December 2009) was a British town crier. He worked for the London Tourist Board , the Mayor of London, the cities of London and Westminster. Life
The custom of hawking led many vendors to create custom melodic phrases to attract attention. At a time when a large proportion of the population were illiterate, the cries of street vendors and town criers provided the public with important messages, whether those messages were commercial in nature or of more general public interest. Street ...