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There was an old corn-mill near the
church, and the local school was just
along the road. |
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The Bethania
Baptist chapel, pictured on the postcard
shown here, was just below the Garreg-ddu dam and very close to  the
banks of the River Elan.When the dams were built by the Victorians, they also had to replace many of the buildings which were going to be lost when the valleys were flooded. A new church was built close to the Garreg-ddu dam, and a new school and a Baptist chapel were provided near the Caban-coch dam. |
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old postcard was sold as a reminder of the Elan
Valley 'before the Waterworks Scheme'.The road ran close to the river along the floor of the valley. You can see from this picture that the area was ideal for making huge lakes by closing off the narrow ends of the valleys with stone-built dams. You can also see that there weren't many people living there, but there are fascinating old photographs of some of the people of the flooded valley of Nantgwyllt on the next page... |
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The people of the lost valleys...
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The
shop used by the little community, seen here in another postcard
view, was by the road close to the River Elan. Now the
Caban-coch dam closes off
the narrow end of the valley in the background of the picture, and the
site of the road and buildings now lies deep underwater.