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
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/
Die Umbenennung möchten wir am 14. November 2012 in der Zeit von 13:30 Uhr bis ca. 16:00 Uhr
in einem Festakt in der Aula mit Ihnen feiern. Als Gäste kommen Herr Senator Ties Rabe, Herr Obermeister Fritz Schellhorn (Vorsitzender der Innung Sanitär, Heizung, Klempner), Herr Dr. Ortwin Pelc (Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte) und Frau Katrin Lindley (Ururenkelin) zum Festakt.
The
construction of a network supplying water Lublin was to the german engineer
Adolf Weisblatt. T
The Water Tower itself was build in the period 1897-1899 at then Bernardine
Square, Freedom Square today. The official
opening took place on 1 July 1899.
The
tower was built in the fashionable neo-Gothic style somewhat reminiscent of the
medieval towers of defense. The
Tower was crowned with battlements, while inside there was a tank, which could
accommodate up to 150 cubic meters of water pumped by two steam pumps. The
tower was made of bricks brought from Volhynia. The
network designed by Weisblat consisted of artesian wells and drainage system.
As
a result of fighting at the end of the second world the water tower was completely burnt down and in
1946 the tower was dismantled. Moreover, vanished
houses, which stood in its neighborhood.
In 2003, because of changes in Freedom Square decided to mark the water tower - a place where once stood are marked dark cobbles. In 2004, the Municipal Water and Sewage Company decided to put money in a new fountain at Freedom Square. In the middle of the fountain bowl bronze monument was erected - miniature old water tower.
Photo: R. Żelichowski, April 2012
On 19 January 2012, passed away Robert Hugh Lindley Egerton (1931-2012), grandson
of Robert Lindley, age 80 (for friends and family Robin).
Robin's grandfather, Robert Searles Lindley worked in Warsaw as a deputy of his brother Heerlein William Lindley in the years 1881 to 1886. Robin, minerals geologist by profession, was born September 26, 1931. Most of his adult life he spent working in the overseas colonies of Great Britain. After his marriage with Claire Brune Priedaux he settled in Godstone, Surrey, which he inherited from his parents. Since 1989 he was retired. He died at a nearby hospital, 19January 2012 at the age of 80 years. He left his wife Claire and four children.
Funeral will take place on Thursday, 2nd February, 2 p.m., at St Nicholas Church: Church Lane, Godstone,
Surrey, RH9 8BW
He was one of the first descendants of the Lindleys in Britain, with whom I
contacted in the autumn of 1994. First we exchanged letters,
later I visted Godstone. Robin remembered perfectly the family's history and
shared with me anecdotes of the prewar period. Made available to me too many
precious family photographs. Some of them were p[rinted in the book "The Lindleys.
The family of civil-engineers." Robin and Claire twice visited Warsaw, in
2000 and 2006. The second time was associated with the Lindley family-reynion
in our city. Each time Robin visited excellent facilities built by his ancestors
in Warsaw in the 19th century he radiated with pride. Last time we have
seen each other was farewell to late Marie Lindley in 2010. He was frail, but
still full of good energy.
Today I write this short note to
give Him last farewell. We shared a thread of sympathy and Godstone house was a
magical place for me, the seat of the family. I was there always a welcome
guest.
Robin in English means also a beautiful bird - in Polish Rudzik. Today Robin is as free as a bird. Maybe part of his soul travels with each of the small Rudziks. Think of it when you see One..
Our thoughts are with his loved ones.
Richard and Hania Żelichowscy
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SOCIETAS LINDLEIANA send its condolences to the EGERTON FAMILY.
Peace be upon him!
In December members and friends of Societas Lindeiana gathered for the last meeting in 2011.
It has been a good year for The Lindley Association. We have celebrated 125 years of water supply in Warsaw (actually first running water in Warsaw homes). We have also taken part in the conference on president of Warsaw Starynkiewicz, a friend and supporter of the Lindleys . Both events have been documented by publication of books. We have shared with you all the details of those remarkable achievements of our Society.
The time has come to wish you all, Dear Friends,
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND PROSPEROUES NEW YEAR 2012 !
For those of you missing the December snow we onclose nostalgic picture from the Lindley times.