First Water and now Wind…

This is not the first time this area has been under threat.  Plans to turn the Ceiriog Valley into a reservoir were defeated by Lloyd George.

In 1923 a proposal by the Warrington Corporation was put before parliament to flood 13,600 acres and create two reservoirs, in effect obliterating the villages of Tregeiriog, Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog and PentreIiI. 

Fortunately, the former Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, was having none of it, pointing out that there was not one single Welsh MP who did not oppose the bill.

Lloyd George spoke about the lyricist poet John Ceiriog Hughes (like many Welsh poets, he took a bardic name, Ceiriog, from his place of birth) and reminded the House that Hughes had

‘Written some of the most exquisite lyrics in many languages, full of music and of song. Hon. Members may smile, but I can assure them that his name produces a thrill among hundreds of thousands of Welshmen, not merely in Wales, but wherever there are Welshmen who speak our tongue in any part, of the globe. His home is to be submerged. I beg pardon.’

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