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Originally Posted by smudgie
Aye. My youngest sister was a monkey hanger.
She was born in Hartlepool.
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…it’s one of those random things that sticks because my dad…(…being Irish so not really having huge English history knowledge etc…)…would say, that’s where they hung the poor monkey…any time Hartlepool was mentioned…and I did as a child have grim upsetting visions of a poor hanging monkey in my head…