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Event    From 10/1/1946  To 14/2/1946

First United Nations General Assembly

First United Nations General Assembly

Held in in the Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Eleanor Roosevelt was a delegate at this and subsequent assemblies.

The small triangle of grass to the immediate west of Central Hall, Westminster, originally called Broad Sanctuary Green, was renamed United Nations Green on 11 January 2021 to mark the 75th anniversary of the first meeting of the UN General Assembly. has a good post about this patch, explaining that there was a plan to add a black commemorative stone to the side wall, giving the history of the name but this has never (2025) materialised.  We like to collect lost plaques but have not yet started collecting ones that never happened.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
First United Nations General Assembly

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United Nations 50th Anniversary

50 This plaque was unveiled by the UN Secretary-General Dr Boutros Boutros-...

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United Nations First meeting

To the glory of God and in prayer for peace on Earth this tablet commemorates...

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Hugh Garside

Hugh Garside

Westminster Councillor. Married to Mair Garside. Our colleague Andrew Behan has kindly investigated this man: Hugh Gervais Garside was born on 18 August 1928 the son of Robert Ollerenshaw Garside ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Rev. A Walbaum

Rev. A Walbaum

Founded and then served for 46 years as Honorary Secretary and Chaplain of the German Hospital and was described in "Migration and Transfer from Germany to Britain, 1660-1914" as the "soul of the h...

Person, Politics & Administration, Religion

1 memorial
Francis Place

Francis Place

Political reformer. Born Drury Lane, into a working family. He became involved in a strike and then in the campaign for suffrage, and then in other social and political reforms. Died Hammersmith.

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
William Voss

William Voss

Clerk of the Committee to restore Bishop Wood's Almshouses in 1930.  Clerk to the Spurstowe's Charity  which in 1906 had taken over the administration of Bishop Wood's Almshouses.  Succeeded in thi...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Alexander Thorn

Alexander Thorn

Member of the Chelsea Vestry Hall Building Committee in 1885. Referring to Chelsea Park British History Online has "The building leases were granted 1878-83 to Alexander Thorn, builder, of Cremorn...

Person, Politics & Administration, Property

1 memorial