Cut through the noise by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Nearly 60 years on, haunting memories of how the historic Norden village of Greenbooth became submerged under millions of gallons of water have been revealed.
It was flooded in the early 1960s, after four years of construction, to create the last in a series of four reservoirs in the Naden Valley.
Today, Greenbooth Reservoir is an essential part of the beautiful countryside north of Heywood, visited by dog walkers, hikers and nature lovers.
The story of how the Heywood and Middleton Water Board's proposals to flood the Naden Valley in the mid-1950s sounded the death knell for a declining village is well remembered by a handful of eyewitnesses to the times.
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