What is recorded here

Lake Vyrnwy Straining Tower rose in 1892 as a Gothic Revival intake tower, pulling water from Europe's largest reservoir and pushing it sixty-eight miles to Liverpool. George Frederick Deacon shaped the concrete and rubble into a circular tower topped by an octagonal turret, giving industrial plumbing the silhouette of a castle. The grandeur masked brutal arithmetic: forty-four workmen died during construction, ten in accidents, while an entire village was drowned to fill the basin. The tower still stands near Llanwddyn, its old strainers displaced but its purpose unchanged, converting raw lake water into life for a distant city.

A named place photographed at this map point in Powys.