The recent extreme heat has revealed the ghostly remains of a Welsh village drowned to create a reservoir supplying Liverpool with water. 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 freshwater reserve for Liverpool known as Llyn Celyn. As well as 12 homes lost, the flood wiped out farms, a post office, a church, a cemetery, and a school.
In 1960, a private bill sponsored by Liverpool City Council was brought before Parliament hoping to develop a water reservoir in the Tryweryn Valley. The development would include the flooding of Capel Celyn.
