Popiersie W.H. Lindleya stoi w najnowszym obiekcie Miejskiego Przedsiębiorstwa Wodociągów i Kanalizacji - stacji ozonowania pośredniego i filtracji na węglu aktywnym. O ile płaskorzeźba przedstawiająca Williama Lindleay-ojca na frontonie budynku jest widoczna z ulicy Filtrowej, o tyle popiersie nie jest publicznie dostępne. Mogą je obejrzeć jedynie goście obiektu.
Oficjalna ceremonia ze zmiana
nazwy szkoły zaplanowana została na 14 listopada tego roku.Wśród honorowych gości
znaleźli się przedstawiciele lokalnych
władz Senator Ties Rabe, przewodniczący Cechu
Instalatorów Fritz Schellhorn i przedstawiciele firm
pracodawców oraz organizatorów praktyk technicznych uczniów. Specjalne zaproszenie skierowane zostało do
potomków Williama
Lindleya i prezesa Societas Lindleiana.
Podczas uroczystości zmiany nazwy szkoły rodzinę reprezentował potomek Williama
Lindleya w prostej linii Eugen Deubner, który
do Hamburg przybył z żoną Karin.
Eugen Deubner i Rainer Schulz, prezes Hamburskiego Instytutu Kształcenia Zawodowego (Hamburgische Institut für Berufliche Bildung, jednostki zarządzającej szkolnictwem zawodowym w Hamburgu) zostali poproszeni o odsłonięcie rzeźby i tablicy z nowa nazwą szkoły.
Rzeźba przedstawiająca głowę William Lindley odwzorowuje rzeźbę wykonaną przez Hansjörga Wagnera, która znajduje się w Hamburgu przy Baumwall.
Eugen Deubner wygłosił krótkie przemówienie i przekazaniem kierownikowi szkoły kopii rysunku przedstawiającego przekrój słynnego owalnego kanału projektu Williama Lindleya wykonanego dla Warszawy w biurze syna (Williama H. Lindleya) we Frankfurcie nad Menem. Rysunek zawiera dwujęzyczny opis – po niemiecku i po polsku.
Prezes przekazał na ręce dyrektora Bucka list od prezes Zarządu Miejskiego Przedsiębiorstwo Wodociągów i Kanalizacji w m.st. Warszawie S.A., p. Hanny Krajewskiej, z egzemplarzem albumu “125 lat Wodociągów Warszawskich 1886-2011”.
Od 15 listopada Wolne Miasto Hanzeatyckie
Hamburg ma swoją “Zawodową Szkołę im. Williama Lindleya” (Berufliche
Schule William Lindley)!
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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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 ...
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 picture shows (from the left to right) William Heerlein Lindley, Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev and imaginary translator on the construction-site.
We find the picture extremely fine and accurate. The Board of Societas Lindleiana congratulates Mr. Mehbaliyev an excelent idea and great artistic talent!
And artist himself:
Local media enthusiastically published the work and information about the author:
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The picture below shows William Lindley sitting on the Boulevard bench with his daughter-in-law, Marie Ladenburg, wife of Robert Searles.
Ryszard Żelichowski, the President of the Societas Lindleyana, was not that lucky. It was cold and rainy day when he sat on the Sandown Boulevard bench at the end of April this year. The bench was almost in the same place, but the old buildings were covered by the new the 20th century additions. However, the charm of the place was still there.
Sandown Boulevard, April 2016. Phot. Hanna Żelichowska
Sandown is a seaside resort town on the southeast coast of the Isle of Wight, England.
Sandown has been a seaside resort town since the Victorian age thanks to its sands and the sunny weather on the Isle of Wight compared to other parts of the United Kingdom. Its success, along with that of other neighbouring Isle of Wight resorts led to the building of a railway connecting Sandown with Ventnor at the south and Ryde on the north coast of the island. Sandown railway station (since 1864) is still on the one remaining operational railway on the island, which now goes from Ryde Pier Head to Shanklin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandown
The 19th century charm: