What do you know of the Hartlepool Monkey and the “Monkey Hangers”? I certainly knew nothing of the tale until I stumbled across it. Legend says that a shipwrecked monkey was hanged as …
Source: Hanging a Monkey as a French Spy During the Napoleonic Wars | ReginaJeffers’s Blog
A very good story.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it, Jennie!
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I did! 🙂
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I have heard the folk of Hartlepool referred to as ‘Monkey Hangers’ since my teens, in the late 1960s.
True or not, it’s a great story!
Best wishes, Pete.
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It is!
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