Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

William Heerlein Lindley

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Sir William Heerlein Lindley (1853-1918), civil engineer who worked in Germany and in Czechoslovakia.

Son of William Lindley

In 1884 the city fathers in Prague announced a competition for a new sewerage systems. It was won by William Heerlein Lindley, who already had experience overseeing the construction of Warsaw waterworks, designed by his father in 1876-8.[1]. Information about the preserved 'Old Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bubeneč' here.

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Sources of Information

  1. 'A sewage works turns into an adventure - The Old Wastewater Museum, Stará čistírna, in Prague, Czech Republic' by Frieder Bluhm, translated by Roy Kift, originally published in Industriekultur, Industrial Archaeology News, 181, Summer 2017