My dad was a 15 year old lad in Easington (County Durham) in 1936 and he remembered very well both the Great Depression with its resultant effects (his own father lost his butchery business, and with that went their family house) and the Jarrow March. He used to tell us about seeing the Marchers as they passed through his area,where they were well received and supported by the local mining communities.

Ironically, whilst me dad himself was a lifelong old style Tory (preferring Ted Heath to Thatcher) his stories of poverty and resistance in the NE of England rather had the effect of turning my older sister and I towards leftist leanings.