Took a trip to Mordue’s
North Shields in Tyne and Wear
Rather rude I thought to not
So I bought an Amber beer
Caught a Metro down in Jarrow
But I’ll not be walking down
Three hundred miles, tad far for me
To get to London town
Sat a while at Central Station
Had a coffee, wrote again
Whiled away an hour or so
Whilst waiting for my train
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In October 1936, with the Shipbuilding industry in severe decline, 207 workers marched from Jarrow to Westminster in London, a distance of over 300 miles, to lobby Parliament against unemployment. It became known as “The Jarrow Crusade”
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