Cofiwch Dryweryn Enamel Pin Badge

It was one of the most shameful chapters in Welsh history - a gravestone for a community that never chose to die.

In 1965, the village of Capel Celyn, a stronghold of the Welsh language in the Tryweryn Valley, was drowned beneath a new reservoir. Not to supply water to Wales - but to serve the English city of Liverpool. An entire Welsh-speaking community, its homes, its fields, its chapel, its school, its graveyard, was erased with the stroke of a Westminster pen.

Every Welsh MP except one (the Conservative Member for Cardiff North) voted against the bill. It made no difference. Parliament pushed it through anyway..

Families were forced from their land, the dead disinterred, the heart of a living community submerged under “public good” legislation that did not even pretend to consider Welsh needs. It was a brutal reminder of how powerless Wales was within the British state.

But the cold water of Tryweryn sparked a fire in the nation’s belly - a roar of “Enough is enough!”
Tryweryn became a rallying cry for a new generation of activists, cementing itself as a symbol of resistance, identity, and the demand for Welsh self-determination.

This badge exists to keep that memory alive. To spark conversations. To remind people - from here and from far beyond Wales - what was done, and why it can never be allowed to happen again.