Also boasting shipyards, Jarrow launched warships for the Royal Navy in the Victorian era and early-20th century.
In front of the town hall there’s a statue of Charles Palmer, a 19th-century shipbuilder and later an MP for Jarrow.
Also in the town centre is a monument for the Jarrow March, which took place in 1936 during the Great Depression when 200 laid-off workers from the shut-down Palmer’s Shipyard walked from Jarrow to London to deliver a petition to parliament.
