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19365–31 October 1936 · Jarrow, Tyne and Wear

The Jarrow March

Red-brick Jarrow Town Hall with its clock turret, where the 1936 march to London set off
Photo: Graham Robson. CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

After Palmer's shipyard closed in 1934, most of Jarrow's workforce had no job. About 200 men set off from the town hall and walked roughly 300 miles to London with a petition of more than 11,000 signatures asking for work. Their MP, Ellen Wilkinson, presented it to Parliament, which offered nothing, but the march became Britain's enduring image of the Depression.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Jarrow Town HallThe building the marchers set out from.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Christ Church, JarrowChurch where the marchers attended a service before leaving.Map ↗
  3. Site 3: The Spirit of Jarrow sculptureBronze group of marchers in the town centre, unveiled in 2001.Map ↗

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