He is referring to the twinned monasteries of Monkwearmouth and Jarrow, near modern-day Newcastle, claimed as his birthplace, there is also a tradition that he was born at Monkton, two miles from the monastery at Jarrow.

Bede may also have worked on one of the Latin bibles that were copied at Jarrow, one of which is now held by the Laurentian Library in Florence.

* Jarrow Priory is established by Benedict Biscop in the Kingdom of Northumbria.

Jarrow ( or ) is a town in Tyne and Wear, England, located on the River Tyne, with a population of 27, 526.

The Angles re-occupied a 1st century Roman fort on the site of Jarrow in the 5th century Its name is recorded around AD 750 as Gyruum, representing Old English Gyrwum = " the marsh dwellers ", from Anglo-Saxon gyr = " mud ", " marsh ".

Today Jarrow residents ' popular nickname for Jarrow is " Jarra ".

The closure of the shipyard was responsible for one of the events for which Jarrow is best known.

Some doubt has been cast by historians as to how effective events such as the Jarrow March actually were but there is some evidence that they stimulated interest in regenerating ' distressed areas '.

Jarrow is reached from the south by the A1 ( M ) via the A194, and is connected to North Tyneside and Northumberland via the Tyne Tunnel.

Jarrow is served by three stations on the Tyne and Wear Metro: Jarrow station in the centre of the town ( on the Yellow line ) Bede station in the Bede industrial estate ( also on the Yellow line ), and Fellgate station ( on the Green line ) to the south.

Jarrow is twinned with the following towns, under the umbrella of the South Tyneside town-twinning project which saw individual twinning projects brought together in 1974:

The Jarrow March is fondly remembered by those on the left in British politics as a landmark in the history of labour movement, even though the Labour Party of the day opposed it, and the Trades Union Congress circularised Trades Councils advising them not to help the marchers.

In the Anglican churches, the term applies to a bishop who is an assistant to a diocesan bishop, for example, the Bishop of Jarrow is a suffragan to the Bishop of Durham ( the diocesan ).

South Tyneside is represented by two Members of Parliament with two constituencies at South Shields and Jarrow ( which also serves Hebburn and the Urban Fringe villages ).

Bede's World in Jarrow ( Anglo Saxon ' Gyrwe ') is dedicated to the life of the Venerable Bede, the ' Father of English History '.

There is a medieval monastery ( St. Paul's Church, AD 681 ), an Anglo-Saxon farm with rare breed animals and buildings constructed in original materials from that period, and the Georgian Jarrow Hall.

Although much romanticized by the Left, the Jarrow Crusade marked a deep split in the Labour Party and resulted in no government action.

The town that was murdered: Depicting in brief the history and demise of Jarrow ( 1939 )

The Jarrow Crusade of 1936 was a key event in the town's history and the original banner carried by the marchers to London can be viewed at Jarrow Town Hall.

During its history, it gained control in England of the Metropolitan Electric and South Metropolitan systems in London, as well as systems in Barsley, Barrow-in-Furness, Birmingham, Birmingham and Midland, Brighton and Shoreham, Cambridge, Devonport and District, Dudley and Stourbridge, Gateshead, Gravesend, Great Yarmouth, Hartlepool, Jarrow, Kidderminster and Stourport, Leamington and Warwick, Middleton, Oldham Ashton and Hyde, Peterborough, Poole, the Potteries, Rossendale Valley, Sheerness, South Staffordshire, Southport, South Shields, Taunton, Tynemouth, Weston-Super-Mare, Wolverhapton District, Worcester and Yorkshire ( Woollen District ).

Historically within County Durham, from the middle of the 19th century until 1935, Jarrow was a centre for shipbuilding, and was the starting point of the Jarrow March against unemployment in 1936.

In 1936 St Albans was the last but one stop for the Jarrow Crusade.

In 1936, by which time unemployment was lower, 200 unemployed men made a highly publicized march from Jarrow to London in a bid to show the plight of the industrial poor.

The Jarrow March ( or Jarrow Crusade, from the phrase on banners carried by the marchers ), was an October 1936 protest march against unemployment and extreme poverty suffered in North East England during the Great Depression.

When the Jarrow Borough Council organised the protest in July 1936, they named it a ' walk ' rather than a march, partly to make it clear their protest was not affiliated with the NUWM — in the hope of gaining more support.

A separate march of 200 blind people also left for London in October 1936 ( see debate title in Hansard for Prime Minister's Questions on 5 November 1936 ( vol 317 cc 234-5 ): " Jarrow and Blind Marchers.

On the evening of 5 October 1936 the Jarrow marchers stopped at the town centre after their first day's walk.

The village is on the route of the 1936 Jarrow March, there is a small plaque on the churchyard wall to commemorate this.

He made his maiden speech on 21 May 1997, in which he mentioned Ellen Wilkinson and the 1936 Jarrow March.

In 1936, " in the grandest tradition of British dissent ", she organised the " Jarrow March " of 200 unemployed workers from Jarrow to London, where she presented a petition for jobs to Parliament.

When the Jarrow March passed through Hertford in 1936 Heffer had gone to see them and the experience had a profound effect upon him.

In real life, the Jarrow March took place in 1936 but Stanley did not die until 1947.

In 1974, Alan Price's " Jarrow Song " reached number one in the old RNI International Service, and number 4 in the UK charts, which brought to the attention once again of the Jarrow March.

* Ellen Wilkinson, Labour MP and Jarrow March organiser.

The tournament ran for a second year in season 1918 – 19, the winners being the ladies of Palmer's shipyard in Jarrow, who defeated Christopher Brown's of Hartlepool 1 – 0 at St James ' Park in Newcastle on 22 March 1919.

The National Unemployed Workers ' Movement had organised several similar marches before the Jarrow March, but they received little political support due to the NUWM's links with the Communist Party.

The original petition, which demanded government aid for the town of Jarrow, signed by 11, 000 people from Jarrow, was carried in an oak box, whilst supporters of the March could add to an additional petition.

It was not until two years after the Jarrow March, in 1938, that a ship breaking yard and engineering works were established in Jarrow.

Among the worst affected towns was Jarrow, where unemployment led to the famous Jarrow March, in which unemployed workers marched to London to protest against unemployment.

In 2011, the Socialist Party gave prominent support to the Jarrow March for Jobs, a 330-mile march from Jarrow in South Tyneside to London to highlight youth unemployment, supported by several MPs, eight trade unions and the Daily Mirror newspaper.

The Socialist Party's first issue of 2010, headlined " Rage Against Unemployment " and written by Youth Fight for Jobs national organiser Sean Figg, who took part in the Jarrow March for Jobs, argues that young people are likely to suffer ' permanent psychological scars ' from unemployment.

The Great Depression devastated the industrial areas of Northern England, Wales and Central Scotland, and the Jarrow March of unemployed workers from the North East to London to demand jobs defined the period.

His grandfather Walter Harrison was the son of a wealthy trawlerman and was disinherited after joining the Communist Party ; he led a hunger march to London shortly after the more famous Jarrow March, which did not allow Communists to participate.