This is a copy of my book chapter which was published earlier this year in Creative Placemaking: Research, Theory and Practice (2018). The book is edited by Cara Courage and Anita McKeown and is published by Routledge. It is available to buy here . Thanks to the editors for permitting its reproduction here.… READ MORE
Month: December 2018
Hill Park Kilties, Jarrow, early 1970s.
I was born and grew up in a town called Jarrow (and in neighbouring Hebburn).
Jarrow was, in the words of the town’s socialist MP at the time of the Jarrow March Ellen Wilkinson, a town that was “murdered”. That was in 1936.
I grew up there in the 1970s and 1980s.… READ MORE