Local History
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This is a collection of items I have put together over the years. For more local history try one of the links beneath.
Lesser-known Jarrow Facts
Wartime letters from Jarrow
St Bede's 1860-1940
Low Jarrow School
1872-1972
St Bede's Harold St.
1914-1964
The IRA in Jarrow
1920-1923
Football on Tyneside
1914-1919
St Bede's Football Club
1894-1961
Jarrow AFC
1894-1949
Hebburn Argyle AFC
1882-1917
South Shields AFC
1889-1919
Northern Alliance
early history
Saint Bede's Well
Great Jarrow Bicycle Race
1888
Presbyterianism in
Jarrow
Jarrow Kino
Chickie Mackin's journal
Old Jarrow Movies
Whatever happened
to Carricks?
VAD Hospitals
1914-1918
The Body in the
Ballast Hill
Jarrow in 1949
Jarrow in 1962
St Joseph's Hebburn
official opening 1960
Local History Links
The Northumberland and Durham Family History Society
- friendly, helpful and knowledgeable people.
Durham and Northumberland Ancestry Research
What's on locally in Family and Local History - and much more besides
The website of Paul Perry
- author of several books on old Jarrow which are indispensable to the enthusiast.
Mike Ellison's Hebburn Website
- local history and chat
Norman Dunn's photo website
- 168 pages of superb historic photos - mainly Hebburn, but also some of old Jarrow.
Brian Pears' website
- a goldmine of information on the North-East of England
The Durham Mining Museum
- where to track down a lost coalmine, or an ancestor injured in a mining accident
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