Welcome
Welcome to the Gild of the Freemen of York website.
We hope to make this site a valuable resource for Gild members, other
Freemen of York (and elsewhere) and interested non-Freemen wherever they
might live.
- Master's Yorkshire Day Charity Concert, 1st August - download
the booking form here.
- AGM - The Gild Annual General Meeting was held in Bedern Hall
on Friday the 27th June 2008 at 7.30pm. Our new Master is Tom Gibson
and you can read his inaugural speech here.
- The Visitors Book is now running again - please
leave us a message.
- Booking forms are now
available for forthcoming trips to St Nicholas Fields Nature Reserve
and Castle Howard.
These can be found on our downloads
page.
- New updates to the Past Masters of the
Gild page - click
here.
- Freedom Court - This years Freedom
Court was held on the 1st October 2007 at the York Guildhall.
-
'Tom's Jottings' - Reviving an old favourite from the
now defunct 'Gild News'. Available
to view here.
- Other
recent additions to the site are entries on the Freemen
Today page,
Origins, and Merchandise
pages, updates
to the Diary
page with
all our forthcoming events
and downloadable application forms for
both becoming a Freeman of
the City of York and Joining
the Gild.
- Older items of news can now be found on
the archive page.
Don't forget
our Visitors
Book (please leave us a comment
when you visit).
We plan to add further updates in the near future - watch
this space!
Any contributions that would help us to complete the historical
aspects of the site would be gratefully received. Please
send any comments to admin@freemenofyork.org
Except
where expressly indicated otherwise, copyright of the contents of this
web site belongs to the Gild of Freemen of the City of York. A form
of acknowledgement is required where any content is reproduced either
electronically or in print: "© Gild of Freemen of the City of
York. Reproduced with permission."
