There is also of course the Grangetown Whale story celebrated in the famous Frank Hennessey song of the same title. Funnily enough I was listening to John Peel's morning programme a couple of months ago and there was this story of a travelling whale which would have fitted in at roughly the same time as the Grangetown whale. Legend has it that it could have come from as long ago as the 1940's through to the 1970's. I am presuming it is the same whale otherwise it would be too much of a coincidence. This whale started out as a sideshow in a circus, whether it was ever alive I don't know but it was certainly exhibited dead because it was in formaldehyde. Rumours are the whale ended up in Cardiff on exhibition arriving on the back of a flat bed truck and pickled. Story goes that by the time it reached Cardiff it was so manky that they decided to bury it in Grangetown. The last tracking of the whale was in Cardiff. Some people have suggested it was buried on the rec off Ferry Road, because there is not much open land in Grangetown.