hatlepool

[wonder years]

is anyone who answers or ask questions on this site from hartlepool?

[ELVIS68]

Let me guess......... you want to know why they hung a monkey?

[dot.hawkes]

Explain please Elvis!

[:Ace:]

Dot, People in Hartlepool hung a monkey in the olde days as they thought it was a spy. Now Hartlepool dwellers are known as Monkey Hangers.

Well...I'm from Newcastle wonder years. Kinda close.

:Ace:

[ELVIS68]

During the Napoleanic war, a boat was found drifting off the coast of Hartlepool,and the only thing onboard was a monkey dressed in sailors gear,they thought it was a french spy so they hung it

[Quizmonster]

Hartlepool and Wallsend seem to be the most commonly mentioned places where a monkey aboard a French (ie enemy) ship was mistakenly believed to be a Frenchman by locals who had never actually seen either a Frenchman or a monkey before. Being an �enemy alien', so to speak, the poor creature was summarily hanged as a spy!
However, this sort of story exists in various places around the British coast, including as far up the coast as the village of Boddam in the north-east of Scotland. People from neighbouring villages used to chant: "The Boddamers hanged the monkey-o!"
The idea is that it is just a 'friendly' insult, usually bandied about between rival communities. Some believe it to be a true story and others just an urban legend. Given how many places it is supposed to have �actually' happened in, I would tend to opt for the latter explanation.

[wonder years]

thanks to all for replying ,

[EmoPunk]

I'm not from hartlepool myself but I know people that are! x

[wonder years]

wellcome to answer bank emo punk its was ages ago when i asked that , its when i first signed on so who do you know who lives in the pool an d how do you know them