"My family used to run a shop in Bala and because we sold fish my father was always referred to as Wil Fish or Uncle Wil by everyone in Capel Celyn.

I used to drive the van around the surrounding area selling produce. I would make the journey every Monday and Thursday going up through Llidiardau, over towards Bryn Ifan and down towards Bryn Celyn.

I had an arrangement with the headmistress of Ysgol Capel Celyn School, Mrs Edwards, to stop outside the village school so that the children could run out to spend their money. Wagon Wheels were the thing at the time!

I remember Pathé News coming to film the plight of the farms just before the dam came. They asked whether I'd mind them filming the van. Archived material about the history of Tryweryn always show me in the van with the children of Tynant farm buying a loaf of bread from me. They were large loaves, four pounds each.

There were around 15 children at Tynant farm, all living in three or four rooms. The children are dotted all over the place now.

I remember when Capel Celyn came into view again during the fine, dry weather in the 1980s. It brought back memories of when the gravestones had to be moved before the valley was flooded."