This summer, Warsaw’s artistic landscape has been enriched by the new effigy of William Heerlein Lindley. It is the the bust of W.H. Lindley sculptured by professor Jan Pastwa from Warsaw Fine Art University. He is also the author of the full sculpture of W.H. Lindley standing next to the bench dedicated to him at Warsaw Podzamcze Park. The bench has been designed by Dr Norbert Sarnecki with assistance of Anna Sarnecka.
The bust of W.H. Lindley stands in the latest addition to Warsaw Supply Company - water ozonation and water filtration on the activated carbon.
The relief depicting William Lindley-father on the pediment of the building is visible from Filtrowa Street but the bust of William Heerlein is not publicly accessible. It can be admired only by the guests of the Company.
We are very glad of the fact that W.H. Lindley is also commemorated in the new Water Supply Company building, but we regret that Professor Pastwa has not benefited from our iconography and gave his sculpture the profile (intuitively rightly) of the author of this note, who tirelessly do research into career and life of the Lindleys, the family of the great English Civil engineers...
About the artists see: http://sculpture.com.pl/files_NS/index.htm
On 23 November 2010, 17.00 hrs in the Readers Room of the Warsaw State City Archive at Krzywe Koło 7 the Society made a public appearance. Those interested could learn about the goals of the Society and listen to the introductory lecture of the President of the Society, Professor Ryszard Żelichowski.
The Warsaw City Archive Has a largest
collection (over seven thousend sheets) of plans of the City of Warsaw made
under supervision of the Lindleys. The Archive invites to visit the Archive to
see the colour plan of 1897 r., renovated in 2009 r. thanks to financial
support of the Ministry of Culture and national Heritage:
Samara (Russian Самара, in the years 1935–1991 Kuybyshev, Куйбышев) - a city in Russia, a river port on the Volga. The capital of the Samara region.
In October 2016, on the occasion of the 130th
anniversary of the Samara waterworks, in front of the main entrance to the
SKS-Samara Ltd. (Municipal Systems in Samara), the Walk of Fame was opened, on
which the names of prominent representatives of the municipal water and sewage
industry were placed.
Every year, the Avenue of Stars is replenished
with new names of "stars". Their role is played by slabs of gray
elegant local stone.
In 2016, on the Walk of Fame, the names of the
founders of the city's water supply and sewage network were immortalized: William
H. Lindley, Alfred von Vacano, Peter Alabin and Nikolai Zimin.
William Heerlein Lindley is the author of the first Samara sewer design.
In 1906, the Samara City Hall (Duma) decided to build a sewage system in the
city according to his design. The main parts of the sewage system have survived
to this day. In 2019, 110 years have passed since this event. The letter
"H", an abbreviation of Heerlein, part of his surname (according to
the British tradition of his mother's name) is missing from the record. We
asked to supplement it. Perhaps our Russian friends will make this necessary
adjustment.
Alfred Josef Marie Ritter von Wellho Vacano (Альфред фон-Вакано)
(1846-1929), Austrian subject, entrepreneur, philanthropist, owner of a brewery
in Samara. Initiator and sponsor of the construction of the first sewage system
in Samara. In 1909, a 4.2 km long trial sewage system financed by him was put
into operation.
Opening ceremony in 2016
Peter Alabin (1824-1896) served as mayor from 1884
to 1891, and in this position he largely contributed to the opening of the
first waterworks in Samara in 1886.
Nikolay Zimin is the author of the design of the first waterworks in
Samara.
In 2017-2019, the Avenue of Fame was enriched with
another four boards.
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The photographs were kindly offered to our Society by courtesy of Director General SKS Samara Vladimir Biryukovowi (Главного управляющего директора ООО "Самарские коммунальные системы" Бирюкова Владимира) and Maria A. Almazov, head of the PR department of SKS (Мария Александровна Алмазова, начальник отдела по связям с общественностью ООО).
In 1960, i.e. sixty years ago, the Kattwyk Coking Plant prepared a special
medal in memory of William Lindley. On the obverse there is a bust of William
Lindley with the inscription:
HAMBURGERGAS (Gas of Hamburg, in the upper part) and WILLIAM LINDLEY, ERBAUER DES ERSTEN
HAMBURGER GASWERKS (W.Lindley, constructor of the first gasworks in Hamburg, in in the lower part). There is a large inscription on the
reverse: HGW KOKEREI KATTWYK 1960 (Hamburger Gasworks, Coking Plant, Kattwyk 1960).
Collection: Societas Lindleiana
The commemoration involved the opening of a new coking plant in an industrial
district of Hamburg, opened in 1960. The new coking plant was short-lived. It
was extinguished in 1981 and was demolished a year later.
In August 1844, the foundation stone laying ceremony for the construction of the first gas coking plant at Grasbrook was held. A year later, the first public gas lanterns to illuminate Hamburg's main streets with coal gas were introduced. In the fall of 1845, there was such a large flood that the new gas facilities were unusable. A new building was needed. “It was taken over by the English engineer William Lindley, who was also responsible for building a modern water supply in Hamburg. The gas lanterns burned again at the end of 1846: 2020 in numbers. The brightness of the streets made the gas plant so popular that its image adorned the backs of playing cards, "writes Sasha Disko-Schmidt in the text Gasversorgung für die moderne Stadt (Gas supply a modern city).
Source:https://geschichtsbuch.hamburg.de/epochen/industrialisierung/gasversorgung-fuer-die-moderne-stadt/
Kattwyk, together with Altona, found itself within borders of Hamburg in 1937. Currently, this name is connected with the unusual Kattwykbrücke drawbridge over the southern Elbe for rail and road traffic. A 290-meter-long bridge connects Moorburg with the eastern Kattwyk peninsula, which belongs to the Elbe Hohe Schaar and Wilhelmsburg islands.
On May 22, 2020, in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, Lindley Association commemorates the 120th anniversary of the death of William Lindley, the designer of Warsaw's sewage system and waterworks.
W. Lindley died on May 22, 1900, in his own home at 74 Shooters Hill Road in
London's Blackheath. He was less than 92 years old. The cause of death was
general age-related health problems and heart failure. In the last
moments of his life, he was accompanied by his eldest son, Sir William
Heerlein Lindley, continuator of his father's works, and his sister Julia.
The funeral took place three days later. He was buried at Charlton Cemetery in
London's Greenwich.
The bas-relief depicting William Lindley on the front of the Indirect Ozonation and Activated Carbon Filtration Station at the Filter Station in Warsaw. Author Andrzej Krawczak (2010)
William Lindley Snr visited Warsaw only once, in
June 1876, at the invitation of Governor-General Paweł Kotzebue and the temporary
President of Warsaw, general Sokrates Starynkiewicz. After a few days of
exploration of the city, he agreed to draw up a sewage and water supply project for
Warsaw. The project was published in 1879 when William Lindley retired at the
age of 71.
The contract with the city to run this great municipal investment was signed by his son, William H. Lindley. In 1881-1917 he was the main engineer for the construction of sewage and water supply in our city.
World Water Day is an annual UN observance day (22 March) that highlights the importance of freshwater. The day is used to advocate for the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The theme of each day focuses on topics relevant to clean water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), which is in line with the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 6.
Source: https://www.igwp.org.pl/index.php/informacje/wydarzenia
Today, instead of joint public festivities we propose „Wirtualne
zwiedzanie Stacji Filtrów” (Virtual visit to the Museum of Warsaw Water Works)
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