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New page: '''Jarrow''' is a former industrial town in the district of South Tyneside, part of the Tyneside conurbation, in north-east England. It is known as the location of St Paul's Ab...
'''Jarrow''' is a former industrial town in the district of [[South Tyneside]], part of the [[Tyneside]] conurbation, in north-east [[England]]. It is known as the location of St Paul's Abbey in the Anglo-Saxon period, where [[Bede]] did much of his work<ref>http://www.bedesworld.co.uk/</ref>. From the mid nineteenth century to Jarrow was a [[company town]], being dominated economically and physically by the shipyard of Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company Ltd. The closure of the yard in 1935 was a devastating blow to the town and prompted the famous Jarrow Crusade, a hunger march in October 1936 of unemployed workers from Jarrow to London<ref>http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/jarrow_01.shtml</ref>.
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