We remember the forgotten village with these archive pictures which show what the place people called home looked like before the waters came in.
Take a look back at these eerie pictures showing the last photos of a community.
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6. Wesleyan Methodist Church
Pulling down the Wesleyan Methodist Church - January 1943 to make way for the Ladybower Reservoir Photo: Julia Armstrong
7. Sunday best
Residents of the now submerged Ashopton village turned out for this photograph in 1912, many of them in their Sunday best Photo: Julia Armstrong
8. The new viaduct
The new viaduct at Ashopton before the village was flooded to make way for the reservoir in the 1940s Photo: Julia Armstrong
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