Not many people nowadays know that it was the citizens of Hull who hung a ship-wrecked monkey, thinking that the monkey was a French spy.

The Mayor of Hull told the press that it had happened at Hartlepool, and the thick sods of Hartlepool thought it improved their image so didn't deny it.   So that is why everyone now thinks it was people of Hartlepool what did it.

(Here in America, the supportors of Hartlepool F.C. call themselves "The Monkey Hangers"), so its not only the British who have got it wrong.

Honest.