Evidence from local people suggest the name came from a strip cartoon in the comic Dandy entitled Danny and his Grockle. |
In that first Dandy, after finishing with Korky, Dan and Keyhole Kate, you met Jimmy and his Grockle. |
Porth means beach in Cornish and emmet, you have to understand, is local for a tourist, as grockle is in Devon. |
I'm sure I must have held your handIn backstreets crammed with grockle shopsAnd pubs and reeling fishermen. The smell I couldn't place was hops. I rode in state along the beach,Beside the ride that never stops. |