The Tryweryn flooding or Tryweryn drowning (Welsh: Boddi Tryweryn), refers to the flooding of the rural community of Capel Celyn to the north west of Bala in Gwynedd, Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn valley.

Cofiwch Dryweryn (Welsh for 'Remember Tryweryn') is a graffitied stone wall near Llanrhystud, Ceredigion, Wales. Author and journalist Meic Stephens originally painted the words onto the wall of a ruined cottage in the early 1960s after Liverpool City Council decided to start the Tryweryn flooding , including the community of Capel Celyn , to ...

Mar 4, 2023 · Building the Tryweryn reservoir by drowning Capel Celyn was seen as serving a vital and greater good. Thousands of families in Liverpool would benefit while the handful of people who lived in ...

Capel Celyn was a rural community to the northwest of Bala in Gwynedd, Wales, in the Afon Tryweryn valley. The village and other parts of the valley were flooded in the Tryweryn flooding of 1965 to create a reservoir, Llyn Celyn, in order to supply …

Feb 10, 2023 · The story of the drowning of Capel Celyn fuelled the nationalist cause, with 'Cofiwch Dryweryn' ('Remember Tryweryn') graffiti popping up across Wales.

Aug 12, 2018 · Tryweryn was submerged in 1965 under 70 billion litres of water to supply homes in Liverpool - awakening the nationalist cause for a generation of people in Wales

Oct 21, 2015 · Tryweryn: Fifty years on the sense of injustice is still raw - so what happened, why and what is the legacy? The controversial project was finished when the reservoir officially opened on October...

Perhaps the greatest symbol of the struggle of the Welsh language during the twentieth century is Tryweryn. The campaign to save the Tryweryn Valley and the village of Capel Celyn from being flooded to supply water to the city of Liverpool began on 20 December 1955 with the announcement of the intention to build a reservoir in the heart of ...

Oct 21, 2015 · Seventy people were forced to leave their homes as Capel Celyn, with its school, chapel, post office and 12 houses, disappeared under the waters of the new Tryweryn reservoir.

Jul 11, 2024 · Capel Celyn was a Welsh-speaking village in the Tryweryn Valley, situated between Bala and Blaenau Ffestiniog. In 1965, despite outrage and protests – even bombings – the area was buried beneath 70 billion litres of water to …