Grangetown

Grangetown was a community in Cardiff. It was the opposite of an up-and coming-area, filled with crime. It was the sort of place where it was easy to move in but much harder to move out again. (PROSE: Slow Decay ^[+]Andy Lane, BBC Torchwood novels (BBC Books, 2007).)

Owen Harper used Grangetown as an example of a place where a dead vagrant might turn up. (PROSE: Another Life ^[+]Peter Anghelides, BBC Torchwood novels (BBC Books, 2007).)

Gwen Cooper spent a lot of time in Grangetown while in the police, raiding houses, breaking up family feuds and making door-to-door enquiries. (PROSE: Slow Decay ^[+]Andy Lane, BBC Torchwood novels (BBC Books, 2007).)

The flat which Lucy Sobel shared with her boyfriend Ricky was located in Grangetown. Gwen visited the flat in search of Lucy. (PROSE: Slow Decay ^[+]Andy Lane, BBC Torchwood novels (BBC Books, 2007).)

Paul Talbot's parents and Mrs Monroe lived in Grangetown. (PROSE: Monster ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Emma Webster lived in a one-bedroom flat in Grangetown. She jogged from Grangetown, through the Bay and off towards Penarth. (PROSE: Almost Perfect ^[+]James Goss, BBC Torchwood novels (BBC Books, 2008).)

While driving through Grangetown towards Corporation Road, Rhys Williams and Gwen Cooper witnessed a police car crash down Bradford Street. Visible in the light from the headlights of Gwen's Saab, they realised the street was swarming with zombies. (PROSE: Bay of the Dead ^[+]Mark Morris, BBC Torchwood novels (BBC Books, 2009).)

In 2009, calls to the emergency services from Grangetown suggested that children were freezing. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three ^[+]Russell T Davies and James Moran, Torchwood series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)

Zoe Blake lived at Wedmore Court in Grangetown with her daughter, Sophie, before the latter died of leukaemia. (AUDIO: Dead Man's Switch ^[+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Behind the scenes

Torchwood website

In an instant messenger transcript on the series 1 version of the Torchwood website, Ianto Jones questioned Jack Harkness as to whether he was "comfortable with the number of fish [Suzie Costello was] using" to test the Resurrection Gauntlet. He noted that they had "started giving [him] looks at the pet shop in Grangetown".^[1]

On the same website, a newspaper article titled "Tragic Christmas for Ellis Family" stated that John Ellis was a "local businessman" from Grangetown. He left a wife, Alice, and son, Alan, living in the area.^[2] A further article titled "Sweetheart Proud of Slain Hero" stated that Nancy Floyd was also from Grangetown.^[3]

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