William Lindley
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William Lindley was an English engineer who together with his sons designed water and sewerage systems for over 30 cities across Europe.
William Lindley
The sewers of Prague
The waterworks of Warsaw
Statue of William Lindley in Hamburg-Neustadt, 2008
Great fire of Hamburg
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The Great fire of Hamburg began early on 5 May 1842, in Deichstraße and burned until the morning of 8 May, destroying about one third of the buildings in the Altstadt. It killed 51 people and destroye
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…German: Hamburg-Bergedorfer Eisenbahn), the first railway line which was carried out in northern Germany. The official opening had to be cancelled as a catastrophic fire in May 1842 left a third of the town in ruins. Lindley became a member of the Technical Commission for the reconstruction of the town centre (with…
The Great Fire, 1842 painting by Peter Suhr
Nikolaikirche on fire
"View of the Conflagration of the City of Hamburgh", Illustrated London News, week ending 11 May 1842
Photograph from the roof of the Stock Exchange of ruins after the fire, by Hermann Biow, one of the earliest news photographs