Friday 3 June 1983
[Handwritten original lists an appointment marked as cancelled, apparently because of MT’s election tour. See THCR 2/7/3/51 for MT’s 1983 election tour
schedule for the day, including notes about the sites she’d be visiting.]
0815 Arrive Central Office
0830-0925 Briefing Meeting
0930-1000 Daily News Conference
1000-1020 Meeting with Chairman [Cecil Parkinson]
1020 Media Interviews
1050 Depart Central Office by car for Battersea Heliport
1105 Helicopter to Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth
1150 Arrive Stoneleigh Abbey [To bet met by: Mrs. Alma Hill, C.B.E. – Area Chairman & Mr. L. Wolstenholme B.E.M. – Central Office Agent] [THCR 2/7/3/51]
1200 Meet and address Candidates and Party workers from the Coventry and Warwickshire Constituencies gathered at Stoneleigh Abbey [NOT TO BE PUBLICISED]
[THCR 2/7/3/51]
1225 Leave for Allesley Hotel in Campaign Coach
1240 Arrive Allesley Hotel, Coventry
Regional TV interview
Buffet lunch with Regional Editors [off the record] [THCR 2/7/3/51] [John Holland (Birmingham Post), Ken Freeman (Deputy Editor, Birmingham Evening
Mail), Geoffrey Elliott (Coventry Evening Telegraph), Keith Parker (Express and Star, Wolverhampton), Chris Watkins (Deputy Editor, Sunday Mercury), John
Bradbury (Sandwell Mail), Don Goggin (West Midlands Press), John Algar (Retiring from Heart of England Newspapers after 22 years), David Griffin
(Berrows Group), Reg Harcourt (Central TV), Gordon Randall (B.B.C. Television), Peter Lowe (Mercia Sound), Peter Brooks (Beacon Radio), Brian Shepherd
(B.R.M.B.), Andrew Thurman (Radio West Midlands)] [2/7/3/59 f161]
1400 Depart for Aston Science Park
1430 Arrive [To be met by: The Managing Director and representatives of the Birmingham City Council and the University] [THCR 2/7/3/51]
1515 Depart Science Park for the NEC
1535 Arrive “Birmingham Mail” Ideal Home Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre for brief tour [The Prime Minister will be invited to say a few words from a
prepared rostrum] [THCR 2/7/3/51]
1620 Depart for the Metropole Hotel [Manager Mr. Graham Golby] [THCR 2/7/3/51]
1625 Arrive Hotel
Speech preparation
1800 Light supper in suite
1912 Leave for the Rally in the Palace Suite of the Hotel [accompanied by Mrs. Hill and Mr. Wolstenholme] [THCR 2/7/3/51]
1915 West Midlands Area Ralley [Chairman: Mrs. Alma Hill C.B.E., Area Chairman] [THCR 2/7/3/51]
2030 Leave by car for London
2200 Arrive No. 10
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