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Home » Articles » Protest in Liverpool against the drowning of Capel Celyn (Tryweryn), 1956Protest in Liverpool against the drowning of Capel Celyn (Tryweryn), 1956
A collection of 14 photographs taken by Geoff Charles of the protestors from Capel Celyn who travelled to Liverpool on 21 November 1956, to demonstrate against the attempts of Liverpool Corporation to build a new reservoir in the Tryweryn valley.
A collection of 14 photographs taken by Geoff Charles of the protestors from Capel Celyn who travelled to Liverpool on 21 November 1956, to demonstrate against the attempts of Liverpool Corporation to build a new reservoir in the Tryweryn valley.
This collection of photographs shows the protestors from Capel Celyn who travelled to Liverpool on 21 November 1956, to demonstrate against the attempts of the Liverpool Corporation to build a new reservoir in the Tryweryn valley. The protestors marched through the streets of the city before Gwynfor Evans, President of Plaid Cymru, addressed a meeting of the City Council.
It was in 1955 that it was first announced that Liverpool Corporation was intending to build the new reservoir in the Tryweryn valley, drowning the village of Capel Celyn, north of Bala. Although a fierce protest campaign was launched by local residents, authorities, individuals and national institutions, all efforts to halt the building of the new reservoir ultimately failed. On 1 August 1957 the Liverpool Corporation Act was passed. Work began on the site three years later and was completed in August 1965.
