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The “Societas Lindleiana” Library series was launched
Our Jubilee!
The Lindley Association “Societas Lindleiana” celebrates in 2019 ten years of acitivity...
Exhibition „Underground City. 125 years of Warsaw water supply
125 years ago the first inhabitants of Warsaw could drink fresh and filtered water direct from their taps. The modern design based on experience gained in Hamburg and Frankfurt on Main made the Lindleys heroes of the day.
The construction started in 1883 and only three years later the dream came true. On this occasion the Warsaw Municipal Waterworks Ltd. (MPWiK) have planned two majour events: a special edition of a new photo-album and a photo exposition under the same title.
The presentation of the album took place on 31 May, in the mid of the day, on a beautiful location of Warsaw treasure premises – Old Orangerie in Łazienki Park.
On the same day the photo exhibition was opened for the general public. Set on beautifully renovated drawings as well as old photographs from MPWiK collection are to be admired from 1 June in the so called Open-air Łazienki Gallery along Aleje Ujazdowskie avenue.
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:
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Lindley Society "Societas Lindleiana" in 2019, long awaited book The Lindleys History of an engineering family, was published. The book, in comparison with the first edition in 2002, is much extended and covers new cities like Dusseldorf, Samara and Moscow. The Author is Prof. Dr Ryszard Żelichowski, Chairman of our Society.
The book was published in Polish in the new “Societas Lindleiana” Library
series and consists of three volumes. The first
volume concerns the origin of the family and beginning of works of the Lindley family in
Great Britain and the German Empire, the second volume is focused on the Russian Empire (including Warsaw), and
volume III covers the history of the Lindley family and their descendants up to the 21st century. Their full
bibliographic description of the books with tables of contents can be
found at the following links:
https://e-isbn.pl/IsbnWeb/onix/summary.html?record_id=7667142
https://e-isbn.pl/IsbnWeb/onix/summary.html?record_id=7667143
https://e-isbn.pl/IsbnWeb/onix/summary.html?record_id=7667144
The Lindley Association “Societas Lindleiana” celebrates in 2019 ten years of acitivity...
The Lindley Association “Societas Lindleiana” has been around for ten years!
On December 12, 2019, the Executive Board of the The Lindley
Society “Societas Lindleiana” (TL-SL)
met at a solemn meeting on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of our
organization. The National Court Register (KRS) entered us into the central
register of the Polish associations on November 23, 2009.
The application to the National Court Register for
registration was signed by a group of twenty one people, who are interested in
the history of Warsaw waterworks and sewage systems designed and built under
the supervision of four English civil engineers, William Lindley and his sons
William Heerlein, Robert Searles and Joseph.
In the past decade we have booked several significant successes. It includes, among others, the participation of our Board members in the preparation and publication in 2016 of the book Lindley plan 1912, and the placing a plaque commemorating the Lindleys at their English home in Blackheath.
In 2015, we managed to arrange invitation of Bill
(William V) Lindley to Łódź to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the water
supply, and in 2016 to Warsaw for the 130th anniversary of the water supply in
the former capital of the Polish textile industry.
In 2018, at the invitation of the organizers of the International Chopin Piano Festival in the heart of Warsaw, TL-SL became the Honorary Patron of this summer's most important cultural event in our capital.
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the
establishment of TL-SL, its president Prof. Ryszard Żelichowski has prepared a
new edition of the monograph. The Lindleys. History of the engineering
family (see the next information on this).
The resolution of the Management Board adopted at the meeting today announced the convening of the General Meeting of TL-SL members in the first quarter of 2020. by-elections to its authorities and the Board's presentation for the coming years of a new program offer to a wider audience.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, the
Management Board of the Lindley Society "Societas Lindleiana" sends
its members and supporters the best Christmas wishes and implementation of
plans in 2020, those important and those less important, in professional and
personal life!
Source: https://www.emag.pl/dekoracja-foliowa-choinka-swiateczna-amscan-165x85-cm-670228/pd/D8YLZ1BBM/
Year 2019 brings the 160th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Lindley
(1858-1906), the youngest of three Lindley brothers. Ten years ago, we devoted
to him the text „On the
margins of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Lindley" published
in the Chronicle of Warsaw" (No. 1, 2009) included in our E-library under
the title "The Fourth Lindley".
We encourage you to read it again. Today we will only remind our friends and readers that he came to Warsaw in December 1888 to replace his older brother Robert, who decided to with his family return to England.
As a representative of the chief engineer William H„eerlein, he took over supervision of the city's measurements and the construction of sewage and water supply systems. He surrounded himself with Poles, participated in the current life of the city, co-financed and was a faithful reader of the „Technical Review". He enjoyed the respect of his employers and the sincere sympathy of those with whom he cooperated. Among the features that characterized him were: justice, goodness of heart and helpfulness for everyone who turned to him for help. In 1894 he married Emma Emilie Suermondt from Wroclaw. They had one son named Henry (Harry) William.
He died on April 20, 1906 at the Ober Ursel (Oberursel) hospital, only forty-seven years old. Joseph Lindley spent most of his professional life in Warsaw.
Lodz street, whose patron is William H. Lindley, has undergone renovation
and beautifying. The city authorities with great commitment and consistency
change the look of the streets in the so called “Woonerf program”.
Woonerf is a word borrowed from the Dutch language, which in free translation means "street to life" or "place to live." This term was invented in the Netherlands the 1970s for the design of streets to make them more friendly to residents and the passersby.
Photos: Grzegorz Sikora
"Lindley
Street after the reconstruction was divided into two parts. From Narutowicz street to the building of the University of Lodz is an
urban courtyard, while to Węglowa street thre are roadways with authorized local traffic and
parking spaces.
The surface has been laid out of
stone and concrete cubes. The old, antique granite cube
has also been preserved.
The existing greenery has also been preserved. There were additionally dozens of new decorative trees and shrubs. We also installed benches, bicycle stands and rubbish bins on the street"
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