Monkey hanger

[3] With comparable lyrics and scansion ("And the Boddamers hung the Monkey, O"), it is plausible that 19th-century Tyneside concert hall songwriter and performer, Ned Corvan, heard and adapted the song while travelling in the Scottish Lowlands with Blind Willie Purvis.

They tried ivery means to myek him speak, They tortor'd the Monkey tiv he loud did squeak; Says yen that's French, says another it's Greek, For the Fishermen then gat drunkey, O!

He's all ower hair some cheps did cry, E'en up to summic cute an' sly; Wiv a cod's heed then they closed an eye, Afore they hung the Monkey, O!

One wearer of the monkey suit, Stuart Drummond, unexpectedly became the first directly elected mayor of Hartlepool in 2002 while in the guise of H'Angus, but was forbidden from wearing the costume while in office.

[10] The French comic book Le Singe de Hartlepool by Wilfrid Lupano and Jérémie Moreau published in 2012 tells this story.

[12] The Hartlepool Monkey also featured prominently in the play Bestiary, written by Jim Burke and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.

[16] Another British singer/songwriter, Boothby Graffoe, released the single "Hartlepool" in 2021, detailing the story and relating it to other (less fictional) atrocities committed during the Napoleonic Wars.