In
March 2017, the President of the German National Committee for the Protection
of Monuments, the Minister of Culture of Brandenburg and the Minister of State
for Culture invited the volunteers to participate in the European Year of
Cultural Heritage in 2018. This
year's project takes place in Germany under the slogan "Heritage
sharing" and is an initiative of the German National Committee for the
Protection of Monuments, the Federal Government, federal states and municipal
associations in Berlin. The
Coordination Office expects about 500 projects and about 1,000 events in Germany
throughout the year.
The
ceremonial inauguration of the European Year took place on January 8, 2018 in
the Grand Hall of the Town Hall in Hamburg.
Six
schools connected in a regional network were given the task of becoming
acquainted with and interpreting the role of monuments and historic buildings
in the urban space. Teams
will learn about the cultural heritage of their city as part of the history of
North Germany and commitment to the protection of monuments.
William Lindley project. A man to start with
Klosterschule high school in Hamburg, as part of the project William Lindley project. A man to start with, focused on William Lindley, a British engineer who in Hamburg designed the first modern waterworks and underground sewers on the European continent, the first railway connection and engaged in the redesign of the port. Its results will be presented publicly as part of an exhibition organized by the Office for the Protection of Monuments in Hamburg.
https://denkmal-aktiv.de/schulprojekte/archiv/schulen-2017/gymnasium-klosterschule-hamburg/
On the 22nd of April 2015 in Blackheath (London Borough of Greenwich) was unveiled a plaque funded by English Heritage Blue Plaques, dedicated to William Lindley and his eldest son, William Heerlein.
In this way, we have completed long-lasting process to bring to the Pantheon of those with outstanding imerits for the British Empire, two engineers, natives of the County of Yorkshire, the pioneers of hygiene, who had worked most of their life in the three empires-Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian.
We encourage our friends and readers to make a short holiday trip to Olsztyn. After being saturated with the beauty of old tenement houses, monuments and beautifully restored secular buildings, it is a must to visit the Center of Technology and Regional Development of the "Museum of Modernity" in that city. One of his sections is devoted to Welsh engineer Isaac Shone (Isaac Shone, 1836-1918), who built in Olsztyn a unique sewage system on the European continent, draining waste ... using compressed air and gravity! Such a pneumatic sewage system functioned in Olsztyn from 1899 and its individual elements were used until the 1990s.
During
standard renovation and expansion of Wojska Polskiego and Artyleryjska streets
in 2010 an old sewage well was found and a historical
"investigation" began by the passionate amateur historian of the
city, Rafał Bętkowski. Today, in the "Modern Museum", one can not
only read about Isaac Shone, but also view various artifacts, photographs and
plans of the city recalling the course of this unusual installation.
Model of ejectory station
We will only add that the advocate of this type of sewage system was the long-time chief-engineer of water supply and sewage system in Warsaw, Alfons Grotowski. Although he preferred the competitive concept of the Dutch engineer Charles Liernur, but eventually Warsaw decided on a general sewerage system designed by the Lindleys. Interesting is that in 1906 a delegation from Warsaw under the leadership of eng. Emil Sokal visited Olsztyn and inspected the installations.
In the United Kingdom Isaac Shone has made this type of sewage system for
the Houses of Parliament, Royal Courts of Justice, Hampton Court Palace,
Eastbourne, Rangoon, & c. and in Russian Kiev.
We do not know if Isaac Shone had a chance to meet William H. Lindley, but it is intriguing to learn that the Welshman died in 1918 in Putney, a small suburb of London, where William Heerlein ended his life a year earlier ...
World Water Day, on 22 March every year, is about focusing attention on the importance of water. This year’s theme, ‘Leaving no one behind’, adapts the central promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development that as sustainable development progresses, everyone must benefit.
W.H. Lindley in action:
https://www.facebook.com/warszawa/videos/326369684902586/
Sustainable Development Goal 6 is crystal clear: water for all by 2030. By definition, this means leaving no one behind. But today, billions of people are still living without safe water – their households, schools, workplaces, farms and factories struggling to survive and thrive. Marginalized groups – women, children, refugees, indigenous peoples, disabled people and many others – are often overlooked, and sometimes face discrimination, as they try to access and manage the safe water they need.
http://www.unwater.org/world-water-day-2018-2/
This World Water Day, 22nd March, is about tackling the water crisis by addressing the reasons why so many people are being left behind. Get familiar with the issues – why are people being left behind without safe water and what can be done to reach them?
On March 23, 2019, the Warsaw Waterworks organize an ecological picnic on the
occasion of the World Water Day. On Saturday, March 23, 2019, in the
Multimedia Fountain Park, from 11.00, residents of Warsaw will be able to enjoy
a number of attractions free of charge.
British Civil
Engineer Hamish Douglas works in Munich since 1979 for an international
engineering consortium. He is also Fellow in the Institution the Civil
Engineering. On the occasion of its 200th anniversary in a short filmed interview
entitled “William Lindley & Hamburg City” he comments on works of William
Lindley in Hamburg and Warsaw.
In this short, less than 9-minute film, he complements Warsaw in these words: “Perhaps the best example of [his achievements] is in Warsaw. So well preserved and so important…This is a biography of William Lindley in Polish [laughing affirmatilvely] You see the importance of the man)”.
View the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LctQLKiPop8
Pleasantly surprised with the Polish book engineer Hamish Douglas is full of admiration for William Lindley's European achievements. It makes us particularly happy because he complements also our city and the book of our author. Thank you Mr. Douglas!
Hamish Douglas, BSc(Eng) Hons, CEng, FICE, FIEI, Member of Bavarian Chamber of Civil Engineers, München, Germany is also member of Editorial Panel for Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Engineering History and Heritage of ICE Virtual Library).
The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is one of the world's most respected professional engineering institutions and has attracted some of history’s most famous and influential civil engineers Throughout 2018, ICE celebrated its 200th anniversary, and hosted number of activities to show how civil engineering has transformed people’s lives and is safeguarding the future for their families.
Five members of the Lindley family were members of this prestigious institution. William Lindley joined the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1842, William Heerlein joined ICE in 1878, Robert Searles in 1881 and Joseph Lindley in 1899. In the 20th century Marie Lindley, the last civil engineer in the family, became in 1953 Associated Member and in 1972 she was the second woman in history of ICE to receive full Fellowship.
Short history of ICE
From humble beginnings in 1818, a small group of young engineers met in a London coffee shop and founded ICE, the world’s first professional engineering body. ICE asked Thomas Telford to become its first President in 1820. His appointment not only gave ICE a major boost – he designed and built all types of infrastructure and brought many new members in – but also played a huge part in shaping the ICE of today.
Since then, ICE has become home to many of history's greatest engineers and 200 years later, has grown to more than 92,000 members in more than 150 countries around the world.
More to read: https://www.ice.org.uk/about-ice/our-history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institution_of_Civil_Engineers
Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George Street, London SW1