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Beneath the Surface: The Submerged Village of Damflask Lost to History

In this video i take a little look at Damflask Reservoir - making references to the old flooded village that was such a disaster due to the collapse of nearby Dale Dyke Dam. Also i shall take a look at the abandoned Stacey Bank Compensation Tank ( Reservoir ) built to ensure a constant flow of water through the Loxley Valley for the industry once there. Five metres under the mirror-calm of Damflask sits a pub sign that hasn’t served a pint since 1864. One crack. One wall of water. One night that erased the village from the map—then the valley’s engineers built a reservoir big enough to drown the entire village twice. Night drops, wind howls, and at half-eleven the embankment sighs like a ship giving up. A fifteen-metre slice tears out. Three million tonnes of water drop sixty-five metres in seconds. The only warning Damflask gets is a millworker—Stephenson Fountain—galloping bareback to shout that the dam’s about to go. His horse slips on the cobbles outside the Barrel Inn; the saddle dumps him in the mud. He hammers on doors anyway. Half the villagers sprint uphill. The rest—too tired, too sceptical, or just plain slow—stay in bed. Twelve-oh-seven: the wave comes. Eight metres high, racing at thirty kph. It scoops up a paper mill and uses the roof as a battering ram. Forty-six people in Damflask die in six minutes. Downstream the final toll hits two-hundred-and-thirty-eight. At dawn the village is a wreck of looms and roof beams. One iron bedframe hangs thirty metres up a tree. Music by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au #damflask #disaster #flood #reservoir #yorkshire #sheffield