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.
William Lindley will speak
On
the 7th of September 2018, University of Applied Sciences (HAW) in
cooperation with the Institute of Heritage, will publish the digital app
revitalizing William Lindley. In
such a unique way City of Hamburg wants to celebrate the 210th birthday of
William Lindley!
The digital app, using the voice of the German actor, will inform the application user about W. Lindley’s impressions from Hamburg, about the fruits of his work for this city. He will also explain "how important is the common action, exchange of experiences with other Europeans and willingness to create a positive basis for the implementation of new joint projects”.
A
small sample of this application was presented to the participants of the
opening of the European Year of Cultural Heritage on January the 8th
this year in the Grand Hall of the City Hall in Hamburg.
On the
photograph you can see a digital figure of William Lindley, who asks prof. Monika
Grütters, Minister of State for Culture and Media, dr. Martina Müncha, President of the DNK,
dr. Carsten
Brosda, Senator for Culture and Media in Hamburg, Petra Kammerevert, MEP, to
officially inaugurate the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018.
English engineer William Lindley (1808-1900) returns to Hamburg in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The Office of Monuments and the University of Applied Sciences have prepared an application in which Lindley, as a digital hero, comments on the city's development.
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