But for Liverpool in the 1950s, a different and highly controversial solution was chosen: flooding the Welsh village of Capel Celyn to ... knit settlement: a post office, a general store, a ...

In 1965, despite huge protests, the Welsh speaking village of Capel Celyn near Bala was drowned under the newly formed Tryweryn reservoir in order to provide a new water supply for Liverpool.

A film of a drowned village. The model was built in a TV studio to remind viewers of the drowning of Capel Celyn village in the Bala area in 1965. This village and the surrounding valley was ...