Hartlepool's monkey statue to be given sign explaining its background over fears it could offend visitors
Hartlepool's monkey statue is to be given a sign explaining its background amid fears it could offend visitors.
The statue represents a monkey that was said to have been mistaken for a French spy and hanged in the early 1800s. The move follows a council report last year warning the figure could be "misused by those with differing agendas to portray Hartlepool as unfriendly towards foreigners".claimed a monkey was washed ashore having been the sole survivor of a French shipAccording to the story, people in the town convicted the animal of being a spy because they had never seen a Frenchman or a monkey.
Residents became known as "monkey hangers" with the Hartlepool United football team even calling its mascot H'angus the Monkey.
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