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On March 22, 2024, Warsaw celebrates World Water Day

The day after it, March 23, 2024, Warsaw Water Supply Company invites us to a picnic full of attractions, which will take place on Saturday afternoon in the Multimedia Fountain Park in Warsaw.

World Water Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly to draw attention to the lack of access to clean drinking water for one billion people around the world. Every year it is celebrated under a different slogan - one that highlights various aspects related to current problems related to water management.

The program includes many attractions, including: Photo booth and photos with William Heerlein Lindley!

Details:

https://www.mpwik.com.pl/view/swietujmy-swiatowy-dzien-wody-razem-na-miejskim-pikniku 

Family Jubilee – the 20th Lindley Family Reunion

20 years have passed since our first meeting at the Polish Institute in Darmstadt in 2003, when Ryszard Żelichowski presented the first edition of his book The Lindleys. The history of an engineering family.In following years, the family reunion took place in Warsaw (2007), Hamburg (2008), Prague (2009), Frankfurt am Main (2012), Baku (2014, 2017) and Hamburg (2015 and 2018).

Munich 2023. 

At the end of the pandemic mixed team of English and German families, started to think about a new place to meet.The choice of Munich seemed natural. One of our seniors, Ursula Caspar (1931-2023), who turned 90 in 2021, lived there, but due to the pandemic we could not visit her.Secondly, in Munich is located the famous  German Museum, which William Heerlein Lindley co-organized with German engineer Oskar von Miller, sat on its Management Board and served there for many years  as secretary-recorder (Schriftfüher). The Archive, which is part of the Museum, since 1920 holds materials donated by the wife of Sir William Heerlein, Lady Fanny Henrietta Lindley (1859-1931), in the form of Lindley Stiftung (Lindley Foundation).  And least but not last, 170 years ago (1853) William H. Lindley was born. A nice, round date to celebrate.

Unfortunately, fate decided that Ursula Caspar left us in April this year, and before her, both her brothers Alexander and Dietrich.

Margrit and Lorenz Neubauer, Karin Deubner and Tom Lindley. A warm evening in the Hirschgarten, a Bavarian specialty

After consultation with the Archive and the family, we agreed that we will continue our reunion. The best time to visit Minich, according to the Archive directors, was 12-14 September. The organization of our three-day reunion remained the responsibility of Eugen Deubner from Wiesbaden, who remains in permanent contact with the German part of the family. The English part led by Bill Lindley eagerly joined the project.

Eugen Deubner, Ben Lindley and Alex Egerton

Bill Lindley, Ryszard Żelichowski and  Ben Lindley

The chief-goal was accomplished. After five years we met and enjoyed the re-union and had a great time together. The highlights were:  the presentation by Dr. Röschner, deputy director of the Archive, some of the treasures of the Archive, including examples of Lindleiana collection and a witty and informative tour of the Deutsches Museum guided by Alexander Lucas.

We look forward to the next family reunion, possibly in England.

April 1, 2022 - visit of lemur and Asia at the Filter Station

Most rigorous regulations associated with the Covid-19 epidemic have been abolished, but in Ukraine, rages the grass Bloody war, caused by the aggression of Russia's leaders. We cannot fully return to an old lifestyle, but we can recall sweet memories of the good old days.

Let’s take an example of Asia. She travels with her plush friend around Poland and some time ago they visited, quite thoroughly, a station of filters in Warsaw, which she described in her lemury blog.

Asia is introducing herself as follows: My name is Asia and welcome you on a lemury blog - the only blog dedicated only and exclusively traveling around Poland. You will find mysterious places, amazing traditions and regional customs. Sleep with me on a journey that starts just outside the door! Welcome!

Little felow seems to be tired...

We invite you to enjoy a virtual trip with this nice couple of travelers.

https://lemurpodroznik.pl/zespol-stacji-filtrow-warszawskich-czyli-skad-sie-bierze-woda-w-kranie/

The 120th anniversary of the death of William Lindley

On May 22, 2020, in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, Lindley Association commemorates the 120th anniversary of the death of William Lindley, the designer of Warsaw's sewage system and waterworks.

W. Lindley died on May 22, 1900, in his own home at 74 Shooters Hill Road in London's Blackheath. He was less than 92 years old. The cause of death was general age-related health problems and heart failure. In the last moments of his life, he was accompanied by his eldest son, Sir William Heerlein Lindley, continuator of his father's works, and his sister Julia. The funeral took place three days later. He was buried at Charlton Cemetery in London's Greenwich.

The bas-relief depicting William Lindley on the front of the Indirect Ozonation and Activated Carbon Filtration Station at the Filter Station in Warsaw. Author Andrzej Krawczak (2010)

William Lindley Snr visited Warsaw only once, in June 1876, at the invitation of Governor-General Paweł Kotzebue and the temporary President of Warsaw, general Sokrates Starynkiewicz. After a few days of exploration of the city, he agreed to draw up a sewage and water supply project for Warsaw. The project was published in 1879 when William Lindley retired at the age of 71.

The contract with the city to run this great municipal investment was signed by his son, William H. Lindley. In 1881-1917 he was the main engineer for the construction of sewage and water supply in our city.

Our Jubilee!

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/