Town Crier Collection

The Great Fire at Limoges, France: the public crier announcing the distribution of relief…, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Scene of the Great Fire at Limoges, France - from a sketch by our special artist: the public crier announcing the distribution of relief, 1864

Recueil des modes de la cour de France, Juré Crieur, between circa 1678 and circa 1693. Creator: Nicolas Bonnart
Recueil des modes de la cour de France, Jure Crieur, between circa 1678 and circa 1693

L'Hotel des Commissaires-priseurs: Le Crieur public, 1864. Creator: Charles Maurand
L'Hotel des Commissaires-priseurs: Le Crieur public, 1864

Salt Regal, 1890. Creator: Unknown
Salt Regal, 1890. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper", Volume 41. January to June, 1890

Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" - Sergeants at Mace, Sword Bearer, Crier, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Lichfield "Greenhill Bower" - Sergeants at Mace, Sword Bearer, Crier, 1850. Annual tradition: This very ancient festival was celebrated...with more than its usual ceremonies

Town Crier, 1776, published 1777. Creator: Bernhard Schreuder
Town Crier, 1776, published 1777

Night Crier (Le crieur de nuit). Creator: Alphonse Legros
Night Crier (Le crieur de nuit)

Portrait of Jacob Wilson (1799-1882) Last Birmingham Town Crier, 1868-69

The Lantern in Winter, Water in Summer, 1737. Creator: Caylus, Anne-Claude-Philippe de
The Lantern in Winter, Water in Summer, 1737

Kings of Arms Proclaim a King, 1936, (1937)
Kings of Arms Proclaim a King, 1936 (1937). From Coronation Souvenir Book 1937, edited by Gordon Beckles. [Daily Express, London, 1937]

Telling the City, 1937
Telling the City - Proclamation of King Edward VIII, Royal Exchange, Jan 22 1936, (1937). From Coronation Souvenir Book 1937, edited by Gordon Beckles. [Daily Express, London, 1937]

A beadle outside the Bank of England, London, 1814. Artist: C Williams
A whol family lost, London, 1814; showing a Bank of England beadle acting as Town Crier, holding a bell in his left hand, announcing the loss of the Guinea family

St Stephens Bell Man, 1820. Viscount Castlereagh, in a bell-mans caped coat, shouts outside Alderman Woods house in South Audley Street. Queen Caroline replies from an open window

Town crier, Cambridge, England, 1936. Artist: Donald McLeish
Town crier, Cambridge, England, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

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