📣 Royal Geographical Society Monday Night Lecture, November 10th, 6.30 - 7.45 pm
Revisiting the Dolgarrog dam disaster after 100 years
On 2 November 1925, a catastrophic flood swept through Dolgarrog village in north Wales, depositing enormous boulders and killing 16 people. In 2025, what have we learnt from this flood disaster? The Dolgarrog disaster was a seminal event for civil engineering and for the design of dams/reservoirs in the UK. The geomorphological impacts of the flood were set out in the Geographical Journal in 1928 in a now classic paper. It was also obviously a tragedy for the local community. The Dolgarrog disaster is not widely known. We will look at all these themes in our lecture and include some of the original News footage.
Jamie Woodward, Jeff Warburton, Stephen Tooth, Hywel Griffiths.
If you are interested in attending the talk online and are not RGS members, please contact Hywel Griffiths (hmg@aber.ac.uk), and we can make the necessary arrangements.
