[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by katex

Mmmm . there all food for thought Dave. They may have been 'manky' .. meaning grim and dirty, and evolved to monkey.

Monks ... weren't any then when these were built.

As for the cannon theory ... reckon Retlaw will soon be back shooting you down on this one ...

No cannons round here, there were some old ones up on Coppice at one time but they disappeared in 1940. Also brass monkeys have nowt to do with cannon balls. As for the other one that some one kept a monkey, before the fire station and the houses for the firemen, you could'nt see any dwellings from there that were nearer than Grange lane.

Its that dammed Atarah's fault, she were a little monkey when she were a kid.

Retlaw..