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170 years ago Robert S. Lindley was born
Katrin Lindley from Cologne
Katrin Lindley from Cologne sends her Christmas wishes
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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/
We are pleased to announce that at the invitation of the organizers of the International Piano Festival Chopin in the heart of Warsaw, the Lindley Society “Societas Lindleiana” became the Honorary Patron of this most important cultural event of the capital this summer...
We are glad of this honor twice. First of all, for the year 2018 falls the 210th anniversary of birth of William Lindley, the founder of three-generation-family of civil engineers. The main celebrations of this event will take place in Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg, where he started his European career.
Secondly, the festival will take place in an extremely beautifully restored church of the Holy Trinity, in which: "in 1825, Fryderyk Chopin performed before the tsar Alexander I and received a ring with a diamond from him. The young composer sang in the parish choir and listened to sermons here" (writes Przemysław Lechowski, director of the festival).
For our Society the most important thing is that the organizers noticed and appreciated, apart from the obvious religious role of the church (God's Temple) and cultural role (superb acoustics), its modest secular role in the history of our city.
Preparations for triangulation works in Warsaw are illustrated in the page of the memorial album reproduced below by the collaborators of William H. Lindley on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the beginning of sewage and water supply works in our city. The central point of this page is the dome and cross of the Holy Trinity Church.
First concert by an Italian artist Leonora Armellini will take place on the 7th of July. |
More details: http://chopinwsercuwarszawy.pl/festiwal-2018/ http://chopinwsercuwarszawy.pl/home-2/ |
Organizatorzy/Organizers
Parafia Ewangelicko-Augsburska Świętej Trójcy W Warszawie
Towarzystwo im. Fryderyka Chopina
Partnerzy Artystyczni/Atristic Partners
Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny Towarzystwa Chopinowskiego W Hanowerze / Niemcy
Syberyjski Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny Im. Fryderyka Chopina W Tomsku / Rosja
Warszawskie Warsztaty Pianistyczne
Partnerzy Organizacyjni/Organizational Partners
Zespół Państwowych Szkół Muzycznych im. Fryderyka Chopina W Warszawie
Patronaty/Patronate
Towarzystwo Lindleyowskie Societas LindleianaWilliam Lindley's second son, Robert (Bob) Searles, was born on January 28,
1854 in Hamburg.His
father had similar hopes for him as for elder brother William Heerlein.He
was convinced that this profession could provide them with good financial
security for the future and allow them to live a prosperous life. Father William Lindley sent him, like his other sons,
to an English school. In 1880, at the age of 16, as wascustomary,
he was employed in the family business.It is
known that he was in Warsaw this year together with William Heerlein, where he
had the best impression of the meeting with President Sokrates Starynkiewicz.
The chance to obtain a contract caused William Heerlein to prepare his younger brother Robert to become his representative in Warsaw.Robert worked on the preliminary design of water and sewage systems together with his father and brother.It was on his shoulders that contacts with President Starynkiewicz and negotiating the terms of employing local specialists rested.
As his future wife, Robert chose Sara Amalia Marie Ladenburg, three years
younger than himself, the daughter of a banker from Frankfurt am Main, coming
from a large family, partly of German and partly French descent.The
wedding took place in Frankfurt on January 10, 1882.
Robert S. Lindley and his wife Marie, 1881
As a representative of the family company, Robert resided in Warsaw in the years 1881–1888. Young couple felt great in this city.“We like the climate here very much.I am pleased to say that Marie is feeling as well as possible.We went out for a visit in the evening and danced waltzes for two hours," Robert wrote to his father about his pregnant wife.Robert and Marie chose the elegant Smolna Street as their new residence.
William Heerlein assigned the English engineer Wood to help Robert."As proof of the technical talent of both these engineers, I can boldly point to the structures they have already partially completed in Warsaw, despite the great difficulties encountered (...) finally, I must draw attention to the fact that both of my assistants have a quality whose importance should berecognized not only by me, but also by people to whom the affairs of Warsaw are no stranger, and this is conscientiousness in the full sense of the word, beyond any doubt (...)" - he justified his choice.In fact, the works began already in 1882. For Robert, a period of real challenge began, launching further tenders, subsequent stages of work and other activities.
On December 7, 1888, Robert finally left Warsaw.First
he went to Hamburg and then to Frankfurt am Main.Ultimately,
he chose the town of Blackheath near London as his new home.About
1897 Robert S. Lindley moved to Godstone Place, Surrey, where he purchased a
house and farm on the outskirts of the village.
Home in Godstone
Robert S. Lindley with Marie and son Edward in the carriage
Wife Amalia Marie Ladenburg died in Godstone on March 10, 1925, July 9 of the same year, at the age of seventy-two years, passed away Robert S. Lindley.
As his grandson Robert Egerton wrote: “he lost the will to continue living, blaming himself and fate for the lack of a means of transport that could have taken her to the nearest hospital and perhaps saved her.The efforts of my mother, who took him with her to Italy to regain balance there, were in vain." Of the five children, four survived: two sons and two daughters. Three of them were born in Warsaw.
Katrin Lindley from Cologne sends her Christmas wishes
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Katrin Lindley, a descendant of Joseph Lindley, graphic designer and author of children's books, whose professional life is connected with Cologne, a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in West Germany, sends us her Christmas wishes:
"To commemorate the commencement of the construction of the sewage
system of the city of Warsaw on 20 August 1883, according to the design and
under the direction of engineer W. Lindley and his sons, this stone was laid by
the acting mayor of the city, general lieutenant Starynkiewicz."
A marble plaque with this inscription was embedded in the wall of
the "A" sewer (collector) near the viaduct built in 1959 over the
perimeter line on the axis of Julian Marchlewski Street, now Jana Pawła II. Currently, this plaque
is in the Museum of Waterworks and Sewerage located at the Water Treatment
Station "Filtry", at Koszykowa 81.
The Polish -language plaque has traces of damage from World War II.