Tryweryn: The stories behind drowned village Capel Celyn
Journalist Betsan Powys uncovers the nuances and complexities behind the story of Tryweryn.
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Journalist Betsan Powys uncovers the nuances and complexities behind the story of Tryweryn.
Owain Williams bombed a dam in a bid to stop the drowning of his village Capel Celyn.
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THE TRAGEDY of Capel Celyn is a focal point of a new book about lost settlements.
Is a quiet revolution edging Wales down the road to independence? Julian Coman © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Haydn Denman/Alamy “There was a village choir; there was a folk group with a harp that won prizes; there was a chapel. And all that culture just went under the water. What you see here is the graveyard of a Welsh community.” More than half a century on, Elwyn Edwards still feels a sense of outrage as he contemplates the valley of Tryweryn in north-west Wales, where the thriving village of Capel Celyn was deliberately flooded in 1965. On the orders of Wes...