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Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Capel Celyn

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post


    The village of Capel Celyn and the Tryweryn valley near Bala were flooded in 1965 in order to supply water for the City of Liverpool. Eight hundred acres of land was flooded and the school, the post office, the chapel and the cemetery lost. This was to create the Llyn Celyn (Celyn lake) reservoir to supply Liverpools residents with water.

    The Tryweryn Bill
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