Remarks visiting Petticoat Lane (private meeting with Edward Heath)
| Document type: | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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| Venue: | Petticoat Lane, East London |
| Source: | (1) Evening News, 20 January 1978 (2) Evening News, 20 January 1978 (3) Evening News, 25 January 1978 |
| Journalist: | (1) Charles Reiss, Evening News, reporting (3) Monty Modlyn, for Evening News, reporting |
| Editorial comments: | Available on CD-ROM only. Morning. There are two parts to the Evening News article - the first on Edward Heath, the second on the walkabout itself. Monty Modlyn who had invited MT to come to the East End and walked around with her, wrote it up in a guest column on 25 January 1978. All the national papers covered MT’s East End walkabout and most printed photographs of her being kissed by Lew Pickle, 63 year old stallholder. Additional material: "What a marvellously cheerful place this is" and (refusing to try on a mink coat) "That’s much too glamorous for a woman politician to wear" (Evening Standard, 20 January 1978); (talking to women machinists) "We girls are going to get a go at government before very long" (Daily Telegraph, 21 January 1978) and improbably perhaps (to a woman running a fruit stall) "I’ll never see 50 again, love" (Daily Mail, 21 January 1978). |
| Importance ranking: | Major |
| Word count: | 1104 |