The Hartlepool Monkey
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Description
"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" Photo by Oliver Dixon, 2007. -
Owner
Oliver Dixon -
Source
Geograph (Geograph) -
License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License -
Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/318321
Resource type: Image
Added by: Simon Cotterill
Last modified: 7 years, 9 months ago
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Picture Taken: 2007-01-22 -
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