X-Nico

4 unusual facts about Jarrow


Heath–Jarrow–Morton framework

However, models developed according to the general HJM framework are often non-Markovian and can even have infinite dimensions.

HMS Flirt

Flirt was a C class destroyer launched at Jarrow on 15 May 1897 and sunk on 27 October 1916 in the Dover Strait.

Inverkeithing

RMS Olympic (Hull only during 1937 as superstructure was removed at Jarrow between 1935 to 1937)

SS Abessinia

SS Abessinia (1900) was a 5,633 ton passenger/cargo ship launched on 16 June 1900, by Palmers', Jarrow, England.


Alan Donnelly

Alan Donnelly (born 16 July 1957) is a British politician and former trade unionist from Jarrow who served as a Labour Member of the European Parliament and leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party.

Anglo-Saxon glass

Hundreds of window glass fragments have been found at Jarrow, Wearmouth, Brandon, Whithorn and Winchester.

Backworth Colliery Band

Although the band has a core membership from Backworth, Shiremoor and nearby towns such as Whitley Bay and North Shields, the bands also attract members from further afield such as Jarrow, Durham and Northumberland.

Carron Company

In the 1960s, it produced cast-iron rings to line the Tyne Tunnel under the River Tyne from Jarrow to Howdon and the Clyde Tunnel under the River Clyde from Whiteinch to Govan near Glasgow.

Dewsbury by-election, 1902

Their possible candidates included Edward Hartley, Ben Turner from Batley, J A Parr, a Justice of the Peace also from Batley and Peter Francis Curran, a Glasgow-born trade union official from London, who was later Labour MP for Jarrow.

Fergus Montgomery

Born in South Shields, Montgomery was educated at Jarrow Grammar School and Bede College at the University of Durham, and became a teacher in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1950.

Interest sensitivity gap

The interest rate sensitivity gap is much less accurate than modern interest rate risk management technology where the impact of a change in the yield curve can be analyzed using the Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework based on the work of researchers such as John Hull, Alan White, Robert C. Merton, Robert A. Jarrow and many others.

Jarrow March

The march is the subject of the songs "Marshall Riley's Army" by Lindisfarne, featured on their 1978 album Back and Fouth, and "Jarrow Song" from the album Between Today and Yesterday by Alan Price.

Maheno, New Zealand

A number of the town's streets are named after places in Tyne and Wear, England, such as Whickham, Felling, Heworth and Jarrow.

Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company

The company was established in 1852 by Charles Mark Palmer as Palmer Brothers & Co. in Jarrow.

Patons and Baldwins

By the mid-1930s, the company had establishments across Scotland and the North of England, including factories at Billingham and Jarrow, and also in Canada, New Zealand, and a large factory in Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

Scandinavian migration to the United Kingdom

These are thought to have begun with the sacking of the monastery at Lindisfarne off the Northumbrian coast as early as AD 793, followed by attacks on Jarrow (794) and the Columban church of Iona (976, 802, 806).

Sir John Jarvis, 1st Baronet

The Depression caused a collapse in demand for ships, and the closure of Palmers shipyard in Jarrow, leading to 80% unemployment in the town.

Sir William Blackett, 1st Baronet, of Newcastle

His father, was a successful businessman at Jarrow and Gateshead and retired to Hoppyland, County Durham.

Susan Powers

Her works have been exhibited in numerous museums, including the Bede Gallery, Jarrow, England, the Woodspring Museum, Weston-super-Mare, England, the Camden Arts Center, London, the Haworth Art Gallery, London, and at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Wrekenton

Wrekenton is believed to have been the meeting point of two Roman roads, Cade's Road, which ran all the way from the Humber, via York to Newcastle and the Wrekendyke which branched away to the north-east passing close to Jarrow and ending at the Roman fort and harbour of Arbeia, at South Shields.


see also