Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Mon 23 May 1983

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/5
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room following MT's resignation but before 1992. The handwritten original has also been studied and material from that source has sometimes been added in, with explicit notes to that effect. The handwritten volumes are now being deposited at TNA in the series PREM32; PREM32/17 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/5 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Monday 23 May 1983

[Handwritten original lists several appointments marked as cancelled, apparently because of MT’s election tour. See THCR 2/7/3/43 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

Private discussion with Chairman [Cecil Parkinson]

1020

Media interviews

1045

Depart Central Office by car for Battersea Heliport

1100

Take off by helicopter

1150

Arrive Filton - British Aerospace [To be met by: Mr. Peter Gower, C.B.E. – Central Office Agent, Mr. Gordon Shattock – Western Area Chairman, Mr. Jack Aspinwall – Candidate for Wansdyke, & Mr. Michael Wilde – Managing Director British Aerospace] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

Join Campaign Coach

1215

Arrive Longwell Green Community Centre [(Wansdyke Constituency) Meet approximately 150 elderly citizens. Those present will include: Mr. Jack Aspinwall, Conservative Candidate for Wansdyke, Mrs. Aspinwall, and candidates from surrounding constituencies] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

1315

Lunch with Luncheon Club

1345

Depart Longwell Green Community Centre

1400

Arrive premises of Messrs. Bristol Ericson, Ltd, Tower Road, North Warmley (Machine Tool manufacturers) [Managing Director: Mr. M.S. Neal] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

1445

Depart for Cardiff

1600

Arrive Angel Hotel, Cardiff [To be met by: Mr. Zachary Brierley – Wales Area Chairman & Mr. Ted Thurgood – Central Office Agent] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

1630

Regional interviews

1740

Provision for telephone conversation with Chairman [Cecil Parkinson]

1800

Dinner in Suite

1900

Depart Angel Hotel

1904

Arrive City Hall [Committee Room A] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

1915

Welsh Area Rally

2015

Depart by car to London [(a) Prime Minister to return to London by car; (b) Rest of tour party to travel to Rhoose Airport] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

2100

[Flight back to London Gatwick for tour party] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

2150

[Arrive Gatwick Airport – transfer to coaches] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

2245

[Arrive central London] [THCR 2/7/3/43]

MT Engagement Diary