United Nations Associations are non-governmental organizations that exist in various countries to enhance the relationship between the people of a member state and the United Nations. They are not a part of the UN itself. The UNA-UK is based at 3 Whitehall Court in Westminster so we imagine it was they who presented the tree just down the road from their offices to their local council.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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United Nations Association
Presented to the City of Westminster by the United Nations Association, to ce...
Chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer. Invented dynamite, first demonstrating it in 1867 in a quarry in Redhill, Surrey. An inadvertently premature obituary, "The merchant of d...
Social worker. Born 80 Park Street, Mayfair, daughter to the Christian socialist Thomas Hughes who was author of "Tom Brown's Schooldays". Moved to join her sister who was married to the Reverend...
Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst Walsh was a British-Australian suffragette, political organiser, campaigner for peace and co-founder of both the Communist Party of Australia and the Australia First...
Film, stage and television director. Born Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell at 31 Belnont Road, Southampton. He studied photography before moving to television. Here he specialised in films about famous...
Central Secretary of the Mothers' Union in 1925. In 1926 was quoted in newspapers as opposed to divorce, supporting a MU decision to deny membership to a divorced woman.
Elizabeth I's occultist, John Dee, believed this stone had magic powers. Elsewhere you may read that it is connected to the Roman Brutus but that story was fabricated in 1862. The Museum of London ...
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