The Hartlepool Monkey
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The Hartlepool Monkey
Image: © Oliver Dixon Taken: 22 Jan 2007
This monument on Hartlepool Headland commemorates the possibly apocryphal tale which is by turns a source of pride or embarrassment to Hartlepudlians. It concerns a monkey washed overboard from a ship in the time of the Napoleonic wars. As the monkey was unable to give a good account of itself in any intelligible manner, the worthy citizens of Hartlepool hanged him as a spy. http://www.rjh.f2s.com/monkey/index.htm
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Image Location
Latitude
54.693685
Longitude
-1.181892