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)

Owen Harper used Grangetown as an example of a place where a dead vagrant might turn up. (PROSE: Another Life)

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)

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)

Emma Webster lived in a one-bedroom flat in Grangetown. She jogged from Grangetown, through the Bay and off towards Penarth. (PROSE: Almost Perfect)

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)

In 2009, calls to the emergency services from Grangetown suggested that children were freezing. (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three)

Zoe Blake lived at Wedmore Court in Grangetown with her daughter, Sophie, before the latter died of leukaemia. (AUDIO: Dead Man's Switch)

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".

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. A further article titled "Sweetheart Proud of Slain Hero" stated that Nancy Floyd was also from Grangetown.