Transporter Bridge 1911 -
Largest in the World
visitors can absorb the history of this unique bridge at the
newly opened visitors centre
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Marine Investigation into Britain's Biggest Single Shipping Casualty
To Discover the Fate of the Swan Hunter
Vessel Click Here
Hartlepool
wwwThisIsHartlepool.com
Historic Quay Shops & Museum Tel:
01429-869-706
Who Hung the Monkey ?
Not a question you ask at
the bar in Hartlepool.
The story goes that during a
severe storm at sea a French ship was wrecked on the shores near Hartlepool.
The towns folk eager for
some free loot from the vessel were on the beach at dawn, they also found a strange
creature that could not be identified.
As Britain at that time was
at war with Napoleon & France, they took the creature prisoner.
With none of the locals
having been to France and no one knowing what a Frenchman looked liked, the monkey was
imprisoned and interrogated at length to determine its origins .
Frustrated at not being able
to get any answers from the strange looking survivor from the wreck, he was hung at dawn
as a French Spy.
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