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The Elan Valley dams
  People of the drowned valleys  
  The wonderful group photograph shown below was taken shortly before the valleys of the Rivers Elan and Claerwen were to be flooded for ever by the new Birmingham waterworks scheme.
The people from the two valleys gathered together in Dol-y-Mynach meadow for a special tea party and entertainment for the children.
The smaller pictures are close-up details from the main photograph, including the fiddler on the right !
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People of Nantgwyllt

Photographs with many thanks to
John Jones of Rhayader
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Some of the children from the front rows !
 

Notice all the amazing hats that almost everyone used to wear in Victorian times !
There are more photographs taken in the lost valley of Nantgwyllt on the next page...

The children from Nantgwyllt School...

 

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