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✧ Jarrow March ✧

The Jarrow March (5–31 October 1936) was a protest against the unemployment and poverty suffered in the Tyneside town of Jarrow, in North East England, during the 1930s. Around 200 men marched from Jarrow to London to petition the government to restore industry in the town after the closure in 1934 of Palmer's shipyard. Palmer's had launched...

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On this date in 1936, the Jarrow march began. With the marchers pretty much from the star was a stray Labrador called Paddy. At first the marchers thought the Dog would soon wander off, but after about five miles, realised he was going to stick with them, so they took good care of him as they went.

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