Hartlepool

Hartlepool is a town near the A689 road in County Durham, England.

The Hartlepool monkey

There is a legend that during the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship was wrecked off the coast near Hartlepool. The captain's pet, a monkey, was washed ashore.^[1] The people from Hartlepool thought it was a person and tried to ask it questions. When they were unable to understand the monkey they assumed it was a French spy.^[1] A trial was held on the beach and the monkey was sentenced to death and hanged.^[1] This event is remembered in several songs. The local football team, Hartlepool United F.C., used to greeted with cries of "Who hung the monkey?".^[1] Their mascot is a monkey called "H'Angus the Monkey". The rugby football team, the Hartlepool Rovers, are known as the Monkeyhangers.^[1]

Hartlepool Media

St. Hilda's Church on Hartlepool Headland, built by the Normans and for centuries known as the Jewel of Herterpol.
The defensive walls around Old Hartlepool
Ward Jackson Park Pond
In Hartlepool near Heugh Battery, a plaque in Redheugh Gardens War Memorial "marks the place where the first ...(German shell) struck... (and) the first soldier was killed on British soil by enemy action in the Great War 1914–1918."
Hartlepool Borough Hall on the heugh
1962 chart of Hartlepool and the Bay, showing the infrastructure before the closure of the steel works and the filling-in of several of the docks
Map of Hartlepool showing the docks and bay
West Hartlepool Town Hall, now used as a theatre
Hartlepool Art Gallery and visitor centre, deconsecrated building also known as Christ Church built from materials excavated to build new docks built during the industrial revolution, and intended to satisfy the spiritual needs of the new workforce.
The Heugh Battery Museum