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| There are more pictures on this page of some of the local people whose lives were to be changed forever by the huge Victorian waterworks project in the Elan Valley. |
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Nantgwyllt
School Elan Valley in the 1890s |
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This fascinating
photograph was taken in the early 1890s. It shows the children and teachers of the village school at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley. The whole valley was to be flooded under the Caban reservoir within a few years, and the school was one of a number of buildings to be lost. |
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More of the old Nantgwyllt
school building
can be seen in the photograph on the right. The projecting canopy at the
top left of the picture was probably to cover the school bell. The location of the school is marked on a map section shown on another of these pages - click here to see it. |
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All the buildings in the flooded
part of the two river valleys were demolished before the waters covered
them, although many people believed that they were still
standing underwater !
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