Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 24 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

Tuesday 24 May 1983

[Handwritten original lists several appointments marked as cancelled, apparently because of MT’s election tour. See THCR 2/7/3/44 for MT’s 1983 election tour schedule for the day, including notes about the sites she’d be visiting.]

0745

[Dr Henderson]

0815

Arrive Central Office

0830-0925

Briefing meeting

0930-1000

Daily News Conference

1000-1020

Private Discussion with Chairman [Cecil Parkinson]

1020

Media Interviews

1115

Depart Central Office by car for Battersea Heliport

1130

Take off by Helicopter for Deal

1200

Arrive Royal Marine Depot, Canada Road, Deal [To be met by: Mr & Mrs Peter Rees and others] [THCR 1/11/19 f4]

Join Campaign Coach

1215

Arrive Walmer Lifeboat Station to meet members of the crew and voluntary supporters from the RNLI and the Ladies Lifeboat Guild

1240

Depart for Deal Conservative Office

1245

Arrive [To be met by: Mr James Thompson, Chairman Deal Cons. Branch and Mrs Sally Le Faye, Secretary Deal Cons. Branch] [THCR 1/11/19 f4]

1300

Depart for Dover

1330

Arrive Dover Promenade opposite Harbour Board HQ [Meet Harbour Board Officials and view the Harbour. Chairman: Sir Frederick Bolton MC. Managing Director & Register: Mr W.T. Allen, MBE, BSc, CEng.] [THCR 1/11/19 f4]

1345

Working Lunch with Harbour representatives

1415

Depart for Dover Party HQ

1430

Arrive [To be met by: Mr Fred Cleary, CBE – President Dover Cons. Assoc. and Mrs Ruth Purnell – Chairman Dover Cons. Assoc.] [THCR 1/11/19 f4]

1500

Depart from Connaught Barracks by helicopter for Battersea

1530

Arrive Battersea Heliport

Car to Downing Street

1600

Arrive

Briefing prior to Nationwide

1715

Depart for BBC Television Studios (Lime Grove)

1745

Arrive BBC

1825

TV Nationwide programme

1915

Return to Downing Street

MT Engagement Diary