There are a number of information plaques in and around the Lower Ouseburn Valley on buildings and structures such as bridges and pubs etc.

The latest one in on the former Mission House on City Road.

Ouseburn Mission

Gladstone Adams 1880 – 1966

Inventor and Photographer.

Invented the car windscreen wiper in 1911.

He was born 16th May 1880 at 4 St Anne’s Row, close to the Ouseburn Mission which occupied this building from 1869.

Here's a link to the Wiki entry on this local inventor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladstone_Adams

We'll get the deatils on the others set up on this page as soon as possible