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William Lindley and William H. Lindley got Blue Plaque in London
Lindleys works in Warsaw the Monument of History
Magical Winter and a happy New Year 2015
(Photo by Ursula Frydrych)
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.
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.
Warsaw's filters it is the joint work of the four Lindleys: the father William Lindley (1808-1900) and his three sons, William Heerlein (1853-1917), Robert Searles (1856-1925) and Joseph (1859-1906). The youngest of the brothers, Joseph, spent nearly his entire professional life in Warsaw, representing a family company.
Being placed on the list of Monuments of History means a serious step towards entering the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites.
You can view this wonderful album in our E-library (texts in Polish):
Dear Members, Dear Friends of the Societas Lindleiana,
In the hectic days day of traditional Polish Christmas, so important for every family, the Board of SL wishes you and your families, when you seat tired but happy by the handsomely stocked table and beautifully decorated Christmas tree, a moment of reflection over the passage of time.
And when the snow falls, we invite you to take a walk and seat on a certain bench near Royal Castle and look at the a certain English civil engineer patiently standing beside the bench. Think favorably about his life and what he has done for our city, and by the way, also about us.
We wish you a magical Winter, a happy Christmas, and all the best in 2015!
The Board of Societas Lindleiana,
Warsaw, Poland 2014
On June 19, 2014, a commemorative plate dedicated to engineer Stefan Skrzywan was unveiled in the city of Łódź. The plaque was affixed to a wall of the former headquarters of the city's water supply company at the Narutowicz Street 65, where Rectorate of the University of Łódź is located. The sponsor of the plaque was the state company AZERSU JSC, of Baku, Azerbaijan. The unveiling of the plaque was one of the events connected with preparations for the celebration of the centenary of the completion of the water works in Baku, which falls in 2017.
Participating in the ceremony were Hasan Hasanov, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Teyyub Jabbarov, Vice President of AZERSU, Hanna Zdanowska, President of the city of Łódź, Professor Włodzimierz Nykiel, Rector of the University of Łódź and Czesław Cieslak, a representative of the Water and Sewerage Company of Łódź.
Stefan Skrzywan (1876-1932) was born in Odessa. After graduating from the Institute of Technology in St. Petersburg in 1911, he worked in the construction of water and sewage system in Warsaw under the direction of William Heerlein Lindley. When construction of the water supply in Baku began in 1911, Skrzywan replaced Englishman Frank Durham, who had previously represented W.H. Lindley in the Caucasus.
Construction of the water works in Azerbaijan impressed the Europeans. The viaduct for the water extended about 180 km, originating from the springs of in the foothills of the Caucasus in Shollar, near the town of Guba. Water, by the force of gravity travelled to a pump station located about 40 km from Baku, from where it was sent under pressure through the water pipe network.
The waterworks in Baku was the final fully completed project of Sir William H. Lindley. In February 1917, despite the raging war and the Russian Revolution, he was present in Baku for the occasion of opening of the taps with clean water. In December of that year, Sir W.H. Lindley died in London.
Engineer Stefan Skrzywan survived World War I and was invited to finish the work on a comprehensive water supply and sewer system of the city of Łódź. The project included most of the work carried out by the W.H. Lindley and his associates earlier in the 20th century. No one was more qualified to be the contractor of the project than Skrzywan. Thanks to Skrzywan’s diligence, attention to detail and his understanding of the concept of aesthetic and engineering, Lindley’s project was completed posthumously and still appeals to us today with its timeless beauty.
On 7-13 April 2014, four members of the Lindley family from Germany, Switzerland and Scotland, along with the President of Societas Lindleiana and his wife, received an invitation to the CATEC W- ater Technologies Exhibition and Conference, organized in Baku by Azersu OJSC (State water supply Company, open joint-stock company). Azersu organized us a wonderful program, through which we were able to not only learn about the history of the Republic, the city and the great changes made by Presidents Heydar Aliyev and Ilham Aliyev, but also see Shollar, a magic place where he William H. Lindley found the source of drinking water for Baku.
Group employees of Azersu with guests of the Lindley family( from left to right: Manaf Suleymanov, Xadija Abdullayeva, Ryszard Żelichowski, Hanna Żelichowska, Alexander Caspar, Tasognov Abdulbagi, Karin Deubner, Hijran Aliyeva-Sztrauch, Catharina Porter, Eugen Deubner and Shakir Mammadov. In the background the monument of H. Tagiyev w Shollar).