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This blue commemorative plaque records: This was the site of the "Gaslight" public house formerly "The Commercial", one of the oldest pubs in Jarrow. Legend has it that William Jobling, one of the last men in Britain to be executed and then gibbeted, was brought here after his death in 1832 and secretly buried somewhere by his friends and family. Recorded plaque organisation: Jarrow Partnership.
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