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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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The Museum of the History of Toilets in Kiev is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Will it survive the devastating Russian rocket attacks?
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One of the few world museums dedicated to toilets is in Kiev, the capital of independent Ukraine bombed by Russian troops. It is worth paying him a virtual visit before the “collateral damage” accidentally destroys its unique collections.
The Toilet History Museum is a private museum founded in Kiev by a married couple of businessmen and hygiene history enthusiasts, Nikolay and Marina Bogdanenko. It was opened in September 2007. It is on the list of the 10 most popular and interesting museums in Ukraine.
It is located in "Tower number 5", on Rybalska Street No. 22. The tower was part of the fortifications of the Kyiv Fortress and was finished in 1846 for a Russian army as a warehouse with provisions and ammunition. Today, the tower houses one of the largest business centers in Kiev and the world's largest collection of toilets and related souvenirs, which was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.
The museum's exhibits are arranged chronologically according to the history of human development: "Prehistory", "Antiquity", "Middle Ages", "Rebirth", "XVII - XXI Century" and "ART WC".
We invite you to visit it, temporarily virtually, in person in the near future!
For details visit:
http://museumtoilet.com.ua/en/
On 23 November 2010, 17.00 hrs in the Readers Room of the Warsaw State City Archive at Krzywe Koło 7 the Society made a public appearance. Those interested could learn about the goals of the Society and listen to the introductory lecture of the President of the Society, Professor Ryszard Żelichowski.
The Warsaw City Archive Has a largest
collection (over seven thousend sheets) of plans of the City of Warsaw made
under supervision of the Lindleys. The Archive invites to visit the Archive to
see the colour plan of 1897 r., renovated in 2009 r. thanks to financial
support of the Ministry of Culture and national Heritage:
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: