Welsh village flooded to provide water for Liverpool re-appears 50 years later

A Welsh village that was controversially flooded to provide water for Liverpool almost sixty years ago has begun to re-appear during the current heatwave.

Tryweryn in North Wales was forcibly abandoned and intentionally flooded to create the Llyn Celyn reservoir in the 1960s.

The reservoir was designed to provide Liverpool with a water supply, but the on-going dry spell has reduced water so much that outlines of old buildings and roads can now be seen at the site for the first time in years.

Images captured by the Daily Post newspaper expose some of the features of the drowned village, which was home to the Welsh-speaking community Capel Celyn.

Residents have also shared photos of the village ruins on Twitter, with one describing it as "very moving."

70 residents lost their homes to make way for the lake, which officially opened on 21 October 1965, and caused wide-spread outrage across Wales.

Furious villagers took to the streets of Liverpool in protest against the scheme, and three Welsh nationalists set off a bomb near the reservoir construction site on the River Tryweryn.

The reservoir is contained behind a rock gravity dam and, at its upper end, it runs between Arenig Fawr and Arenig Fach, two of the mountains of south Snowdonia.

Welsh nationalists have claimed the destruction of a community that was entirely Welsh-speaking led directly to the rise of Plaid Cymru as a major political force and the creation of the Welsh assembly.

On the 40th anniversary of the opening of the lake, Liverpool City council apologised for the "hurt" caused.