Review:
The Elan Valley Clearance: The Fate of the People and Places Flooded by the 1892 Elan Valley Reservoir Scheme
by David Lewis Brown From Planet 238

Planet 234

Kate Green reviews
The Elan Valley Clearance: The Fate of the People and Places Flooded by the 1892 Elan Valley Reservoir Scheme
by David Lewis Brown

by David Lewis Brown

Logaston Press, £12.95

‘It’s April 1891,’ begins David Lewis Brown. ‘Let me take you on a journey through the two valleys on the eve of this great disturbance,’ and (with genuine frisson) I found myself walking alongside a most genial and knowledgeable companion through the lost landscape of the Elan and Claerwen valleys before they were submerged to provide water for the City of Birmingham.

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Kate Green is an artist who lives and works in the Welsh Borders. Her project Walking the Pipe told the stories of the Elan Valley Aqueduct through song and she will be Resident Artist in the Elan Valley from July – December 2020. www.kate-green.co.uk