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Extract from the Jarrow and South Shields Travel Guides:
Five miles east of Newcastle on the south side of the river,
JARROW
has been ingrained on the national consciousness since the 1936
Jarrrow Crusade
, a march to London by unemployed protesters which became the most potent image of the hardships of 1930s Britain. However, the town made a mark rather earlier, as the seventh-century St Paul's church and monastery was one of the region's early cradles of Christianity. The first Saxon church was built in 681 by monks from St Peter's at Monkwearmouth, and its monastic buildings soon attracted a reputation for scholastic learning. It was here that the
Venerable Bed...
read the whole Jarrow and South Shields Travel Guides...
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