The stories behind drowned village Capel Celyn
In the summer of 1955, the people of Capel Celyn learnt their homes had been earmarked as the site of a new reservoir to provide water for Liverpool.
The village could not be saved and in 1965 Capel Celyn was flooded, with 75 people having to leave their homes.Betsan visited the Liverpool Record Office as she researched the historyVisiting the Liverpool Record Office, it struck me that this is Liverpool's story too of course.Before Tryweryn, Liverpool was already getting its water from Wales - but the city's council argued there wasn't enough of it.
Thousands of families in Liverpool would benefit while the handful of people who lived in Capel Celyn would be rehoused. While there, he described seeing a mutual respect growing between his father and the people of the valley. He shared his parents' fury at the plans to flood Capel Celyn and wanted to do something to support the village.The tiny village of Capel Celyn wasn't, in his view, worth it.Some saw jobs and opportunity.Martha and Elwyn's stories are just two that go to the heart of the little complexities that are sometimes drowned out by big headlines.
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