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Perhaps the most famous of them all, Capel Celyn was flooded to create a fresh ... Its history has been erased from modern maps, but lives on through the stories of its residents, who still ...
The tiny village of Capel Celyn wasn't, in his view, worth it. And an honest telling of the story reminds us that not everyone in the area saw injustice. Some saw jobs and opportunity. Image ...
The 50th anniversary of the drowning of the Welsh village of Capel Celyn will be marked on 21 October. It was flooded in 1965 to create Tryweryn reservoir, to supply water for the people of Liverpool.
A once-bustling town in the UK is now entirely underwater - and can only be seen during periods of extreme hot weather. The abandoned Welsh village of Capel Celyn, Gwynedd has been dubbed 'Britain ...
Capel Celyn, Gwynedd, was a village in the Tryweryn Valley, between Bala and Blaenau Ffestiniog, a small rural community where Welsh was the dominant language. In 1965 it was flooded to create a ...
A new reservoir was needed, and Capel Celyn, its school, chapel, post office, farms and 12 houses would be subsumed to provide it. Nearly 50 people and a way of life in the Tryweryn valley which ...