At the end of March 2009 The Warsaw Surveying Company WPG S.A. took place an important exhibition about Warsaw „Hoppe, Lindley, WPG, Warsaw Cartography 1641-2009”. The exhibition was organized by The Warsaw Surveying Company WPG in cooperation with the State Archive of City of Warsaw (APW).
Author of the exhibtion was Paweł Weszpiński, member of Board of our Societas
Lindleiana, which administers and takes care of the so called Lindley plans in
the archive. The exhibition was
dedicated to the 150 anniversary of birth of Josepha Lindley, the younest of
three Lindley brothers.
The exhibition reminded Young generation that the waterworks and sewage systems as well as modern surveying of the city is to thank family of English civil engineers, father William Lindley (1808-1900), and sons Sir William Heerlein Lindley (1853-1917), Robert Searls (1854 – 1925) and Joseph (1859-1906).
Warsaw, March – May 2009. Author of the exhibition Paweł Weszpiński (on the photo first to the right). Introduction to the catalogue Ryszard Żelichowski.
http://muzeum.wpg.com.pl/en/page/wydarzenia/gid/24
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.