18th of October 2015 is the 50th anniversary and on the A487 a Graffiti daubed on a moss-covered tumbledown wall on the winding A487 coastal road to Llanrhystud in Ceredigion is the only reminder left for passers-by of an event that fuelled one of the biggest campaigns for Welsh independence in living memory. The fading words ÒCofiwch DrywerynÓ (Remember Tryweryn) are the unofficial memorial to the Welsh-speaking people of Capel Celyn in Gwynedd, who lost their homes when the Tryweryn Valley was flooded in 1965 to build a giant reservoir to supply the city of Liverpool with water.

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