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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.
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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.
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.
Jarrow is marked in history as the starting point in 1936 of the Jarrow March to London to protest against unemployment in Britain.
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 '.
* 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 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.
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.
The village is on the route of the 1936 Jarrow March, there is a small plaque on the churchyard wall to commemorate this.
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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.
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:
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.
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Famous former residents of the town, including Ellen Wilkinson MP, Charles Mark Palmer and William Jobling, have been remembered in the names of beers produced by Jarrow Brewing Company, a microbrewery in the town.
The Times nostalgically describes Wilkinson as " a passionate, intelligent old-school socialist ", She is remembered as " one of the leaders of the Jarrow March and among the best known pioneer women MPs ".
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Monkwearmouth's sister monastery at Jarrow was founded by Ceolfrith in 682, and Bede probably transferred to Jarrow with Ceolfrith that year.
His life and work have been celebrated by a series of annual scholarly lectures at St. Paul's Church, Jarrow from 1958 to the present.
In the monastic library at Jarrow were a number of books by theologians, including works by Basil, Cassian, John Chrysostom, Isidore of Seville, Origen, Gregory of Nazianzus, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, Pope Gregory I, Ambrose of Milan, Cassiodorus, and Cyprian.
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.
Although much romanticized by the Left, the Jarrow Crusade marked a deep split in the Labour Party and resulted in no government action.
This community had been founded at Jarrow by Reinfrid, a Norman ex-knight and monk of Evesham Abbey, and Eadwine, an English monk from Winchcombe Abbey.
Jarrow's needs for secondary education are currently served by Jarrow School, formerly Springfield Comprehensive.
* Jarrow War Roll Researched by Vin Mullen
Despite the efforts of industrialist and Member of Parliament Sir John Jarvis, by September 1935, Jarrow had lost most of its heavy industry, and unemployment stood at 72. 9 %
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