London Trivia: First windscreen wiper

On 26 April 1908, the windscreen wiper was invented by a Newcastle United fan driving home from London in a blizzard. Gladstone Adams was driving home after seeing his team lose the FA Cup Final to Wolves. His journey was punctuated by repeated stops to clear snow from the windscreen. Adams vowed that when he got back home he’d do something to solve the problem. And so he did. On 26 April 1921 the first motorcycle police patrols went on duty on the streets of London, it’s not recorded how many speeding offences were booked that day When Scotland Yard’s foundations were being built the headless torso of a woman was found, the murderer was never caught Crutched Friars, Tower Hill takes it’s name from Fratres Cruciferi a Roman Catholic religious order that settled in the street in 1249 St. Bartholomew’s Hospital is the oldest hospital in London having been founded in 1123 by a monk named Rahere The first Lord Mayor of London (who is an officer of The City of London) was Henry Fitz-Ailwin…