Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 26 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

Thursday 26 May 1983

[Handwritten original lists several appointments marked as cancelled, apparently because of MT’s election tour. See THCR 2/7/3/46 for MT’s 1983 election tour schedule for the day, including notes about the sites she’d be visiting.]

0800

Robin Butler

0815

Arrive Central Office

Briefing meeting

0830-0900

[Hair]

0930-1000

Press Conference

1000

Chairman [Cecil Parkinson]

1020

Interview

1045

Depart Central Office for Victoria Station

1100

Train to Gatwick Station

1145

Flight take-off for Leeds Bradford Airport

1245

Arrive Leeds Bradford Airport and join Campaign Coach [To be met by: Mr. Eric Ward, COA Yorkshire & Mr. Joe Barnard, Yorkshire Area Chairman] [THCR 2/7/3/46]

1310

Arrive Harry Ramsden's Restaurant for lunch [General Manager: Mr. Frank Begg] [THCR 2/7/3/46]

1350

Depart via Menston for Otley

1355

Whistlestop in Menston [(Suburban village in Shipley) NOT TO BE PUBLICISED] [THCR 2/7/3/46]

1400

Depart for Otley

1410

Arrive Otley - Robert Ogden Holdings [Tour of premises Robert Ogden Holdings. To be escorted by: Mr. Robert Ogden, Chairman and Managing Director] [THCR 2/7/3/46]

1440

Depart via Huby for Harrogate

1448

Whistlestop Huby village centre [(Skipton & Ripon) To be met by: Mr. John Watson, Candidate. NOT TO BE PUBLICISED] [THCR 2/7/3/46]

1453

Depart Huby for Harrogate

1503

Arrive Police Convalescent Home for tour [To be met by: Supt. R.J Webb, Q.P.M.] [THCR 2/7/3/46]

TV interview on board Campaign Coach

1600

Depart for Majestic Hotel, Harrogate [THCR 2/7/3/46 has this at 1530 and MT’s arrival at the hotel at 1535. Also notes the General Manager’s name: Mr. Frank Flaherty.]

1630

Briefing and speech preparation [THCR 2/7/3/46 has this at 1600.]

1700

Regional interviews: TV, radio, etc.

1800

Light supper

1900

Depart Majestic Hotel for Royal Hall, Harrogate

1905

Arrive Royal Hall, Harrogate

1915

Harrogate Rally [Chairman Mr. Joe Barnard (Yorkshire Area Chairman)] [THCR 2/7/3/46]

2030

Depart for Leeds Bradford Airport

2100

Flight from Leeds to Gatwick

2200

Arrive Gatwick and drive to No. 10 [THCR 2/7/3/46 notes a ‘transfer to coaches’ upon arrival at Gatwick]

2255

[Arrive central London] [THCR 2/7/3/46]

MT Engagement Diary