Hafod Fadog Watermill, Capel Celyn

£24.00

High resolution digital image from our catalogue

The forty second item is a photograph of the old watermill pertaining to the Hafod Fadog farmstead of the historic village of Capel Celyn which is alas no more. In 1960, the village was demolished and the area flooded in order to create a reservoir known by the name of Llyn Celyn. The reservoir completed in 1965 continues to this very day to carry out its original function of providing a plentiful supply of water to Liverpool and the Wirral. The village of Capel Celyn was located north west of the market town of Bala in the historic county of Merionethshire (modern day Gwynedd). Significantly, the farmstead of Hafod Fadog is known to have been a meeting place for Quakers during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The image is dated to the year 1955 just five years before the demolition of the village along with the old mill itself.