Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 31 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 31 May 1983

[See THCR 2/7/3/48 for MT’s 1983 election tour schedule for the day, including notes about the sites she’d be visiting.]

0745

Dr. Henderson

0800

Robin Butler

0815

Arrive Central Office

0830-0925

Briefing Meeting

0930-1000

Daily News Conference - Ground Floor Conference Room

1000-1020

Private discussion between Prime Minister and Chairman [Cecil Parkinson]

1020

Depart Central Office for Downing Street

1030

Prepare for and record Panorama

1300

Lunch in Flat

1345

Depart No. 10

1400

Train to Gatwick [Arrive 1441] [THCR 2/7/3/48]

1500

Depart Gatwick for Edinburgh

1620

Arrive Edinburgh, Turnhouse Airport [To be met by: Mr. Michael Ancram, Chairman Scottish Conservative Party & Mr. A.M.G. Macmillan, Director of Scottish Conservative Party] [THCR 2/7/3/48]

1625

Depart Edinburgh Airport for Scottish Central Office new buildings to inspect them

1640

Arrive Scottish Central Office, 3 Chester Street, Edinburgh

1655

Depart Scottish Central Office for Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh

1700

Arrive Caledonian Hotel [To be met by Rt. Hon. George Younger] [THCR 2/7/3/48]

1900

Depart Caledonian Hotel

1912

Arrive George Watson's College [To be met by: Mr. Adam Currie, The Master, Edinburgh Merchants Co., Dr. Roger Young, Headmaster, George Watson’s College, & Mr. Donald Maclean, President SCUA] [THCR 2/7/3/48]

1915

Address Rally [for 10 Lothian Region Constituencies (6 in Edinburgh and 4 outside). Chairman: Mr. Donald Maclean. Those present to include: The Secretary of State (for Scotland, George Younger), Candidates for Lothian Region Constituencies, one of whom is Michael Ancram] [THCR 2/7/3/48]

2030

Depart George Watson's College

2045

Depart Edinburgh Airport

2125

Arrive Dalcross Airport, Inverness [THCR 2/7/3/48 has this at 2105 and adds: ‘To be met by: David Maclean, Candidate, Inverness Nairn & Lochaber, Mrs. Lorna Waddell, Constituency Chairman, and Pipers’]

2200

Arrive Station Hotel, Inverness [Manager Mr. Tom Gilchrist] [THCR 2/7/3/48]

Supper and overnight stay.

MT Engagement Diary