Why England Erased This Welsh Village
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In 1965, England drowned the Welsh village of Capel Celyn and the surrounding farmlands, home to 70 residents. This one event reshaped Wales but is forgotten about in England. In this video, Andy, visits the site of this lost settlement to speak with people who saw it all happen to understand, how England could do this, how it reshaped Welsh nationalism, and whether something like this could ever happen again.
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Video by Andy Burgess
Executive Producer: Andy Burgess
Senior Producer: Anjali Sharma
Special thanks to: Dr Wyn Thomas, Elwyn Edwards, Aeron Prysor Jones, Arthur Morris Roberts & Owain Williams
Hi, I'm Andy and I believe people would be less divided if they understood each other more. So in 2022 I started Faultline to document and report on stories from overlooked people and places to shift how we see the world.
My filmmaking journey started on Snapchat in 2016 where I encountered stories in parts of the world that are largely ignored by mainstream media. These stories were way bigger than my own, so I turned the camera onto others and became the guide. In 2018, that work earned me a Shorty Award nomination, a signal that audiences were ready for stories that had long been overlooked.
That path led me to create and showrun 'Origins' for Red Bull, a documentary series that traced the roots of extreme sports through the overlooked communities and places that built them, and how they reshaped global culture.
Over the years my reporting has taken me to places experiencing profound change, from the Arctic to the Middle East, across Eastern Europe, South Asia and the United States, to forgotten communities back home in the UK. Everywhere I go, the same pattern emerges despite language barriers and cultural differences, everyone has stories they want to tell. It’s obvious when we have real conversations we find common ground and learn something new. But inside our algorithmic bubbles, that curiosity has been replaced with fear.
Faultline is my answer to that: a space for stories from places you might never think to look. Wherever possible, I travel to where those stories live, listen closely, and share what I find. Because choosing curiosity over fear changes how we see the world. That’s the journey here, and I’d love for you to be part of it.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 The drowned village of Capel Celyn
2:14 The reason you haven't heard about this
2:51 Life in Capel Celyn
4:22 Life in post-war Liverpool
5:41 Liverpool is running out of water
6:31 Lake Vyrnwy
6:55 Liverpool's search for water
7:17 My search for ex-residents of Capel Celyn
8:50 The 5 hour drive to Capel Celyn
10:35 Capel Celyn today
11:35 Growing up in the village
12:12 Why Liverpool want to flood the Tryweryn Valley
13:16 A £16 million reservoir
13:46 Local pushback
15:39 How did England do this?
16:50 A very short history of England & Wales
17:51 The UK votes on flooding the Tryweryn Valley
18:47 Liverpool's plan to flood the valley
19:37 The building of the reservoir
19:59 The eviction of Capel Celyn
20:42 The explosion in Capel Celyn
22:52 The police catch the 3 men.
23:44 I've set up an interview with one of them
24:00 The aftermath of the explosion across Wales
24:24 The demolition of the village
25:25 The year of the drowning (1965)
25:49 The day of the drowning
26:39 A new era of Welsh Nationalism
27:17 Meeting the Tryweryn Bomber
27:57 Why they did it
28:49 The rise of paramilitary groups in Wales
30:22 Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru (MAC)
31:19 The MAC bombings
31:39 The Investiture of the Prince of Wales
33:01 Owain Williams - In hindsight, was it a good idea?
34:17 Welsh Devolution
35:22 What it's like to live here today?
35:45 Liverpool's secret agenda
37:46 Could this happen again?
39:31 Outro & Behind-the-Scenes
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