American Guild of Town Criers

Oyez! Oyez! The American Guild of Town Criers was founded on July 5th 1997 at historic Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

	Ring here to see pictures of the town criers and hear their cries from 2002
	Ring here to see pictures of the town criers and hear their cries from 1997
	Ring here to read the history of the North American Town Crier Championships

	Listen to the sound of a town crier's bell
	Listen to a town crier's invitation to attend his words
	Listen to a town crier's call for patriots

General

American Guild of Town Criers
The World of Town Criers
The Town Criers of Great Britain
Results of the 7th World Town Crier Competition (British Columbia, September 1997)

People

Orde van de Belleman World Championship AC 2000
Bevan Craddock Town Crier of Penkridge, England, which had a Town Crier or Bellman as early as the late 16th century called Edmund Woolley.
Maggie Harding South Australia's First Lady Town Crier [lionqueen1@bigpond.com]
Peter Moore Town Crier to the Mayor Of London
Alan Myatt Gloucester, England
Bev and Jerry Praver Official Town Criers of San Luis Obispo County, California
John Smith The only officially registered town crier in Scotland

Town Criers from Canada and the United States competed in 1997. This event gave Town Criers an opportunity to promote "The Honourable Position of Town Crier and the Ancient Art of Town Crying."
July 5th was proclaimed American Guild of Town Criers Day by the Honorable Edward G. Rendell, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia
Read the history of The North American Town Crier Championships.

It is home of the oldest extant trade guild in the United States, The Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. It has been the site of innumerable firsts, including the meetings of the First Continental Congress in 1774, The American Philsophical Society, The Franklin Institue and The Pennsylvania Provincial Conference, all of which met in Carpenters' Hall.