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William Lindley in colour...

In 1879 William Lindley went to a photo atelier and ordered a couple of his photo portraits. He was 71 and just retired from his duties. We do not know what was the purpose of the photo session. The four photographs taken by an unonymous photographer could serve as a family token, or were required by a publisher. The second option seems to be the most probable, taking into consideration very formal poses stroke by William Lindley.  One of the luckily preserved photographs pictures William Lindleya looking at the photographer, the second one pictures his profile. 

The first one is the best known and frequently published (above. For a better quality photo see our Album The Lindleys on this website). 

The second one, the property of City Archive of Hamburg, is little known. Slightly modified and dramatized, black and white photograph was placed on the cover of the book  "William Lindley Konstrukteur der modernen Stad" (Edit. O. Pelc & S. Groetz), a final product of the seminar and exhibition in 2008 in Hamburg dedicated to the 150s birthday of  William Lindley.


Brownish old print looks almost like a colour photograph... William Lindley in colour?

My flaps…

The ‘fotoblog’ offers an overview of the vast collection of sewer entry flaps (covers) from the whole world. One can be amazed with the variety of decorative motives on the flaps and variety of ideas how the unique space can be used. Commemorating people, events or places seems to be the most popular form.

The conclusion: be on the alert when you pass by the sewer flap, or you may overlook an important cultural artifact of the local culture!  

Fotoblog: Klapy me (My flaps): 

http://klapyme.flog.pl/wpis/1029971/i-oto-ona-.

Water Towers once more…

Małgorzata Łoś writes:

What is a water tower and how does it work ?

A water tower is an architectural structure used for a technical purpose. A water storage container is placed in its top part. From the container water is distributed in pipes to different destinations. The container is elevated in order to get the appropriate pressure required to distribute water. Water is pumped to the container and then can be distributed out of the container without any additional pressure supply. It relies only on the pressure produced by the elevation of water (due to gravity). This is the main reason why the water container must be elevated higher than the water consumers.

My Project – water towers collection

I am interested in water towers mainly because of their architecture. I try to immortalize them in photographs and to show the beauty of these buildings. My project is also of a documentary character – with the purpose being collecting photos and information about all water towers in Poland (existing and of the ones already destroyed) and creating a catalogue of water towers.

On my web page you can find pictures of water towers done by me or received from other people.

If anybody knows about any water tower or its history, please let me know:  losiolek@tlen.pl

http://www.wieze.republika.pl/index_ramka_eng.html

From the history of „water martyrs”

His first Statue was erected on the 18th March of 1938 on the corner Rademachergang and Breiter Gang and pays tribute to a genuine original Hamburg character widely known as The Hummel.

Johann Wilhelm Bentz (1787-1854) 

Today, in addition to the 1938 original, there are many statues throughout Hamburg’s city center dedicated to Hummel. In the whole city of Hamburg there are now over 100 different Hummel statues, created by many different artists, always as a man carrying two buckets of water. Souvenirs shops in Hamburg offer stautes of Hummel in all sizes and colours.

On the photograph Bentz's sculpture on one of the wooden houses in Bergedorf, suburb of Hamburg.

http://andrewvanz.blogspot.com/2008/11/throughout-center-of-city-of-hamburg.html

John Lindley (1799-1865)

John Lindley FRS (8 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist. Lindley was born at Catton, near Norwich, England, where his father, George Lindley, author of A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden, owned a nursery garden. He was educated at what was then Norwich Grammar School. His first publication, in 1819, a translation of the Analyse du fruit of  L.C.M. Richard, was followed in 1820 by an original Monographia Rosarum, with descriptions of new species, and drawings executed by himself, then in 1821 by Monographia Digitalium, and "Observations on Pomaceae", which were both contributed to the Linnean Society. Shortly afterwards he went to London where he was engaged by J.C. Loudon to write the descriptive portion of the Encyclopaedia of Plants.

During his labour on this undertaking, which was completed in 1829, and through arduous study of character patterns, he became convinced of the superiority of the "natural" classification system devised by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu – a system that he believed reflected the great plan of nature as distinct from the "artificial" system of Linneaus followed in the Encyclopaedia of Plants. This conviction found expression in A Synopsis of British Flora, arranged according to the Natural Order (1829) and in An Introduction to the Natural System of Botany (1831).

Barkeria lindleiana

Assistant secretary to the Horticultural Societ since 1822, in 1829 Lindley was appointed to the chair of botany at University College, London, which he retained until 1860. He also lectured on botany from 1831 at the Royal Institution, and from 1836 at the Chelsea Physic Garden, starting the society's flower show in the late 1830s.

Lindley described the plants collected on Thomas Livingstone Mitchell’s 's expeditions of 1838 and wrote an Appendix to the Botanical Register of 1839, describing plants collected by James Drummond and Georgiana Molloy of the Swan River Colony in Wstern Australia. He also played a large part in having Charles Moore appointed as Director of the Sydney Botanical Gardens.

During his professorship, he wrote many scientific and popular works as well as making significant contributions to the Botanical Register, of which he was the editor for many years, and to The Gardeners’ Chronicle, where he was in charge of the horticultural department from 1841. He was a fellow of the Royal, Linnean and Geological Socieies and died at his house in Bedford Park near Turnham Green, London in 1865.

A few of John Lindleys Publications:
* Rosarum Monographia, 1820
* Digitalium Monographia, 1821
* A Synopsis of the British Flora, 1829, 1835, 1841
* An introduction to the natural system of botany, 1836
* Sertum Orchidaceum, 1837–1841
* The Genera and Species of Orchidaceos Plants, 1830–1840

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lindley

http://www.orchids-flowers.com/famous-botanists/john-lindley-botanist/