Mr Jones Parry, the postmaster, outside his post office at Capel Celyn on 10 December 1956 which was submerged when the valley was flooded Betsan Powys grew up with the story of how the Welsh ...

THE UK's Atlantis is entirely underwater with a church, school and post office that can only been during hot weather. The village of Capel Celyn in the Trweryn Valley in North Wales was flooded in ...

Perhaps the most famous of them all, Capel Celyn was flooded to create ... As well as 12 homes, farms, a post office, church, cemetery, and a school were lost. The decision incensed the nation ...

The abandoned Welsh village of Capel Celyn, Gwynedd has been dubbed ... The flood wiped out farms, a post office, a church, a cemetery, and a school - and their ghostly remains are still visible ...

drove through a parliamentary bill which saw the flooding of an 800-acre valley around Capel Celyn and cause the destruction of its school, a post office, a chapel and cemetery. The project ...

It was an idyllic village set deep in the Welsh valleys where the chapel and post office were the epicentre of community life. But 50 years ago Capel Celyn near Bala was under a death sentence at ...

A new reservoir was needed, and Capel Celyn, its school, chapel, post office, farms and 12 houses would be subsumed to provide it. Nearly 50 people and a way of life in the Tryweryn valley which ...

Fresh images show Capel Celyn rising from the depleted waters ... It was home to 70 people once had a post office, school and a chapel with a cemetery. But they were submerged along with houses ...

The village could not be saved and in 1965 Capel Celyn was flooded, with 75 people having to leave their homes. Its 12 farms, school, chapel and post office disappeared under water. Visiting the ...

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