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William Lindley and William H. Lindley got Blue Plaque in London
Magical Winter and a happy New Year 2015
(Photo by Ursula Frydrych)
In
March 2017, the President of the German National Committee for the Protection
of Monuments, the Minister of Culture of Brandenburg and the Minister of State
for Culture invited the volunteers to participate in the European Year of
Cultural Heritage in 2018. This
year's project takes place in Germany under the slogan "Heritage
sharing" and is an initiative of the German National Committee for the
Protection of Monuments, the Federal Government, federal states and municipal
associations in Berlin. The
Coordination Office expects about 500 projects and about 1,000 events in Germany
throughout the year.
The
ceremonial inauguration of the European Year took place on January 8, 2018 in
the Grand Hall of the Town Hall in Hamburg.
Six
schools connected in a regional network were given the task of becoming
acquainted with and interpreting the role of monuments and historic buildings
in the urban space. Teams
will learn about the cultural heritage of their city as part of the history of
North Germany and commitment to the protection of monuments.
William Lindley project. A man to start with
Klosterschule high school in Hamburg, as part of the project William Lindley project. A man to start with, focused on William Lindley, a British engineer who in Hamburg designed the first modern waterworks and underground sewers on the European continent, the first railway connection and engaged in the redesign of the port. Its results will be presented publicly as part of an exhibition organized by the Office for the Protection of Monuments in Hamburg.
https://denkmal-aktiv.de/schulprojekte/archiv/schulen-2017/gymnasium-klosterschule-hamburg/
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
2016 was another good year for our Society. In September we took part in the 130-anniversary of the Water Supply Company in Warsaw. We have published the W.H. Lindley Plan of 1912 Warsaw, very important for Warsaw after war destructions. It is a collector item.
We wish you all:
Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year 2017
Phot. Urszula Frydrych
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.
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 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).