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26th December 2017, 07:51 PM
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The Hartlepool Monkey.
Did they really hang a monkey in Hartlepool?.
Was a monkey really hanged in Hartlepool? - BBC News
Fouro.
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26th December 2017, 10:39 PM
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Re: The Hartlepool Monkey.
Click on to BBC news to read the post above.
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27th December 2017, 12:17 AM
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Re: The Hartlepool Monkey.
All of our generation knew that story from being children. Thought it would of been handed down generation to generation. I passed it on to mine. Maybe today they are too busy with a mobile clagged to their ear perhaps or think that Google is a wise old man, instead of a collector of newspaper cuttings of doubtful origin and so called colourful information. Thanks Fouro for going to the trouble of finding the official story for the many in the world who probably now are a bit wiser. Cheers JWS.
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31st July 2018, 09:22 AM
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Re: The Hartlepool Monkey.

Originally Posted by
j.sabourn
All of our generation knew that story from being children. Thought it would of been handed down generation to generation. I passed it on to mine. Maybe today they are too busy with a mobile clagged to their ear perhaps or think that Google is a wise old man, instead of a collector of newspaper cuttings of doubtful origin and so called colourful information. Thanks Fouro for going to the trouble of finding the official story for the many in the world who probably now are a bit wiser. Cheers JWS.
Jez Lowe has something to say on the Hartlepool monkey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQwQ_nPhx-o
Harry Nicholson
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31st July 2018, 09:37 AM
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Re: The Hartlepool Monkey.
The same story circulates in and around Greenock. The people of Port Glasgow convinced the Greenockian's that the monkey was a French spy.
Vic
Last edited by vic mcclymont; 31st July 2018 at 09:42 AM.
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