British Painter Samuel Scott 1702–1772

A British landscape and marine painter Samuel Scott died on 12 October 1772. I found him only last year, but I started liking his works at once. Here I want to show a couple of his paintings that I like. Most of them he made in London. A British painter Samuel Scott had specialized in...

Tapio Katko, Petri Juuti & Riikka Juuti: Vesihuollon myytit (Vastapaino 2022)

𝑴𝒚 𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉-𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔: 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝑴𝒂𝒚 𝒊𝒇 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒑𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒖𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒆𝒍𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒔. 𝑺𝒐 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒈,...

A Photographic Story of My Visit to the “Lindley’s Filters” in Warsaw in 2011

Filter Station, one of the water treatment plants of the Municipal Water Supply and Sewerage Company in Warsaw (MPWiK), has been existing for 135 years. It's known nowadays as Water Supply Plant “Filter Station”, or  informally just "filter station", or "Lindley's Filters". I visited there in September 2011 in order to write a 125th anniversary...

Sir Joseph Bazalgette Died 130 Years Ago

Sir Joseph Bazalgette is probably most known for renewing London’s sewer system. But he was much more than that and his other work are in fact more visible than the work beneath the ground. Because the ongoing COVID-19 situation ruined my plans to go to London to study more carefully his other work and take...

Cambridge Museum of Technology – My Visit in Photos

I visited the Cambridge Museum of Technology on 30 October 2019 after a month of re-opening the museum. So my timing was perfect. I spent there for four hours seeing most of the site and photographing and studying the history of the Old Sewage Pumping Station and the industrial history of Cambridge. This post is...

Regent’s Canal in My Photos

Regent's Canal in London was officially opened 200 years ago, on the 1st of August 1820. I was first planning to write a real history story about the canal and illustrate the story with some historical photos as well as my own photos. But I had to change my mind. Just like my Regent's Canal...

Some Bridges Over the Regent’s Canal

I present here some of the bridges that crosses the Regent's Canal in London. I have never had a project like, "let's photograph all the bridges that cross the canal", but I have photographed them on my walks. These shots are taken on a relatively short section of the canal in Camden and Regent's Park...

The Anderton Boat Lift – A Masterpiece of Victorian Engineering

The Anderton Boat Lift was opened on 26 July 1875. It was built as a hydraulic lift, but in 1908 it was converted to electric power. The lift that connects the River Weaver and the Trent & Mersey Canal, was closed on safety grounds in 1983. The lift was standing redundant for some time, but...

English Civil Engineer, William Lindley, in Hamburg

An English civil engineer, William Lindley, died in Blackheath, London, on 22 May 1900. He is not as known as some other Victorian engineers, and I believe that’s because he did most of his career in continental with or without his son William Heerlein Lindley. I wrote an article for a Finnish water magazine, Vesitalous,...