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William Lindley (b.
September 7,
1808 in
London - d.
May 22,
1900 in
Blackheath, London), was a famous
English engineer who together with his sons designed
water and
sewerage systems for over 30 cities across Europe.
As a young engineer he worked together with
Marc Isambard Brunel and
Francis Giles. In
1833 he went to
Germany as Giles' assistant to design and build a railway line for
Hamburg. The official opening had to be cancelled as a catastrophic fire in May
1842 left a third of the town in ruins. Lindley had already been commissioned to design a new
sewer system for Hamburg, and the destruction was an opportunity to modernise the city.
His designs, influenced by English social reformer and public health inspector
Edwin Chadwick, included the first underground sewers in continental Europe. Within three years 11 km of sewers had been built in Hamburg, and Lindley began work on a waterworks to supply the city with drinking water. In the following years he helped design and build water systems in a number of other German towns such as
Altona,
Stralsund and
Leipzig.
In
1860 he lost the commission to oversee the water system in Hamburg, and moved with his family to
London. This included his three young sons -
William Heerlein Lindley (born 1853), Robert Searles Lindley (born 1854) and Joseph Lindley (born 1859). In
1863 he began work on the sewerage system of
Frankfurt am Main, the benefits of which became apparent as between
1868 and
1883 the
death rate from
typhoid fell from 80 to 10 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Lindley's designs were in demand across Europe, and together with his sons he built systems for cities in Germany (including
Düsseldorf) and elsewhere, including
St. Petersburg,
Budapest,
Prague and
Moscow. In 1876 the
Australian city of
Sydney even asked him to design a sewer system for them, but he turned them down as he'd just been commissioned by
Warsaw.
Between
1876 and
1878 he designed the
Warsaw waterworks, which were constructed between 1881 and 1889 under the direction of his son, William Heerlein Lindley. To this day, there's a street in Warsaw named after him, which goes around the historical waterworks. Also named after the Lindleys' handiwork is "Filter Street" (
ulica Filtrowa). As an interesting sidenote, the system that William Lindley designed for Warsaw is still operational, and the last sewer collector of his design wasn't replaced until
2001.
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