kdubya Posted May 1, 2008 Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 OK general legend was that a"monkey" was hung during the Napoleonic wars, historians have tried to confirm that? however it seems that the most likely event was that a "powder monkey" was actually hung ie a French kid with a blued face from gunpowder, its also interesting that I also use to live at peterhead in the north east of scotland and worked at peterhead power station which was actually at a place called boddam they too proclaimed to have "hung the monkey" cheers KW monkey hanger extrodinaire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kernel gadaffi Posted May 1, 2008 Report Share Posted May 1, 2008 Wolsingham in Weardale, 12 miles west of Bishop Auckland, about 17 miles west of Durham, but in all honesty, a three day camel ride from reality Plenty of land for me to shoot on though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie_k Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 sunderland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ste eibar Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 Sunderland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE AD Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 STOCKTON ON TEES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontbeck Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 Ponteland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billytheghillie Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 KELSO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rabbiter Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 NEWCASTLE....... DAZ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vipa Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 Stockton on Tees Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 Newbiggin Hall Estate, Newcastle God's own country........ Now waits for the torrent of abuse about being a townie off all the woollybacks. Newbiggin hall :o Stones throw from myself that is but I thought the Occupants of said topographical interest all had ski masks and sawn off's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted August 17, 2011 Report Share Posted August 17, 2011 It was a chimpanzee, and it was during the Napoleoinc wars and the locals thought it was a Frenchman. So they interrogated it, and when it wouldn't talk they hung it as a spy. Nah!! Quite obviously they found the poor creature washed up after a ship wreck and upon finding it covered from head to foot in body hair took it for a French WOMAN and when said Chimp shunned their sexual advances they realised it was a MALE chimp and just wanted to show how they discovered it was male as it was well hung :lol: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
officerdibble777 Posted August 18, 2011 Report Share Posted August 18, 2011 Rosyth ,near Dunfermline.Fife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northeastshooter Posted August 18, 2011 Report Share Posted August 18, 2011 bishop auckland Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breastman Posted August 18, 2011 Report Share Posted August 18, 2011 Chester-le-Street aka Ground Zero come Saturday. Derby day. 12:00 kick off. 1 pub has the match on. What the hell were they thinking :yp: Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phaedra1106 Posted August 18, 2011 Report Share Posted August 18, 2011 Chester Le Street as well. My eldest was bar manager at Horners pub, only place I've been in where the staff outnumber the customers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobby63 Posted August 18, 2011 Report Share Posted August 18, 2011 Horden , near Peterlee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bangs Posted August 18, 2011 Report Share Posted August 18, 2011 Wingate, that's around 7 mile east of Durham. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted August 18, 2011 Report Share Posted August 18, 2011 no you aint? Local government reorganisation in 1996, recommended by the Banham Review, saw the county of Cleveland broken up into the four independent unitary authority boroughs of Hartlepool, Stockton, Middlesbrough and Redcar and Cleveland (a renamed Langbaurgh). At this time they were returned to the counties of North Yorkshire and County Durham for ceremonial purposes, with Stockton-on-Tees becoming the only district in England split between two ceremonial counties.In 1998 the neighbouring borough of Darlington also became an independent unitary authority and this along with the four former Cleveland boroughs form the sub-region of the Tees Valley cleveland was broken up ( er as it was a fiasco thanks to the boro councillors ) so where are you? cheers KW Keith he's from the land of the woolybacks, ower north Yorkshire. There's nowt as qeer as folk. I'm also a monkey hanger from ahhtlepool where the letter h does not exist. Ps. if there are five pages of us northerners how come we lost the north vs south shoot??? Mmmm ATB figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mini Magnum Posted August 19, 2011 Report Share Posted August 19, 2011 Another monkey hanger here from Hartlepool.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POPPY-72 Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 and another monkey hanger, hartlepool seems to be a few on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breastman Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) Ps. if there are five pages of us northerners how come we lost the north vs south shoot??? Mmmm ATB figgy Because it was another southern venue and not many of us poor northerners could afford to go down there! P.S. Unlucky SMB's! Edited August 21, 2011 by Breastman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matty_Harvo Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 Dunston born and bred how many people know where that is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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