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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.
Hebburn and Our Neighbours
- local history and chat
Mike Ellison's Hebburn Website
- local history
Norman Dunn's Old Hebburn, Jarrow and South Shields
- 545 pages of superb historic photos.
The Durham Mining Museum
- where to track down a lost coalmine, or an ancestor injured in a mining accident
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