Sometime between 1 and 2pm on April 24, we would come along and one of the criers would do a cry about that person's business in rhyme. |
A feature of the competition saw Peterborough City Council's environmental control department measuring criers ' voices with a decimeter. |
Plans for the competition are going well, but more volunteers are needed to put up visiting criers in their homes for a couple of nights. |
Telemachus wakes at dawn and has criers call the citizens to assembly. |
Also in the town will be a town criers' competition, when ten criers from across the North will also be advertising local businesses, street collections and song and music. |
The criers will be judged on volume, clarity, diction, inflection and dignity. |