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Jarrow Cemetery: Unveiling of a Headstone to Mary Lyons (Wor Bella, Jarrow born footballer)

Jarrow Cemetery Cemetery Road, Jarrow

Headstone for Mary Lyons (from Ed Waugh) As a response to our play Wor Bella, about women's football in WW1, there will be an unveiling of a headstone to Mary Lyons at Jarrow Cemetery on Sunday, April 27 @ 11.30am. See press release below. FORGOTTEN WW1 FEMALE FOOTBALL STAR TO GET A HEADSTONE She died […]

NELH Tuesday Meeting, Tyneside Irish Centre: Dr Katherine Connelly will present: ‘Who stopped the War? Women and the Jolly George’

Tyneside Irish Centre 43 Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

On 10 May 1920, East London dockers made history when they refused to load the Jolly George ship with munitions that were intended to be used against the Bolsheviks in Russia. Their action precipitated a wave of working-class support that effectively forced the British government to abandon their war plans. It has remained a beacon […]