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Easter 2024
On March 22, 2024, Warsaw celebrates World Water Day
170 years ago Robert S. Lindley was born
Katrin Lindley from Cologne
Katrin Lindley from Cologne sends her Christmas wishes
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At the end of March 2009 The Warsaw Surveying Company WPG S.A. took place an important exhibition about Warsaw „Hoppe, Lindley, WPG, Warsaw Cartography 1641-2009”. The exhibition was organized by The Warsaw Surveying Company WPG in cooperation with the State Archive of City of Warsaw (APW).
Author of the exhibtion was Paweł Weszpiński, member of Board of our Societas
Lindleiana, which administers and takes care of the so called Lindley plans in
the archive. The exhibition was
dedicated to the 150 anniversary of birth of Josepha Lindley, the younest of
three Lindley brothers.
The exhibition reminded Young generation that the waterworks and sewage systems as well as modern surveying of the city is to thank family of English civil engineers, father William Lindley (1808-1900), and sons Sir William Heerlein Lindley (1853-1917), Robert Searls (1854 – 1925) and Joseph (1859-1906).
Warsaw, March – May 2009. Author of the exhibition Paweł Weszpiński (on the photo first to the right). Introduction to the catalogue Ryszard Żelichowski.
http://muzeum.wpg.com.pl/en/page/wydarzenia/gid/24
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.
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.
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
William 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: