Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Thu 2 June 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 2 June 1983

[Handwritten original lists an appointment that was apparently cancelled because of MT’s election tour. See THCR 2/7/3/50 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

1045

Depart Central Office by car for Victoria Station

1100

Train to Gatwick Station

1200

Flight to East Midlands Airport [(Lunch on board)] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1245

Arrive East Midlands Airport [To be met by: Candidates and supporters from Amber Valley, Bosworth, Broxtowe, Derby North and South, Erewash, Gedling, Melton, Loughborough, Nottingham East, North and South, Rushcliffe and South Derbyshire] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

Join Campaign Coach

1300

Depart for Shepshed, The Bull Ring

1315

Arrive Shepshed [(N.W. Leicestershire Constituency)] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

Whistlestop [NOT TO BE PUBLICISED. To be met by: David Ashby (Candidate North west Leicestershire) & supporters] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1320

Depart Shepshed for Leicester [As coaches pass through the Bosworth Constituency before reaching Leicester, Adam Butler’s supporters will be at the roadside to let off blue balloons. NOT TO BE PUBLICISED] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1345

Arrive Town Hall Square, Leicester [To be met by: Candidates for Leicester East, South and West & Supporters – NOT TO BE PUBLICISED] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

Open air meeting in Town Hall Square [Note: There will be an RAF Careers Display in the Town Hall Square at the same time featuring a Harrier] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1405

Depart for T.W. Kempton Ltd., Burley's Way

1410

Arrive [To be met by: Mr. Neville Kempton, Joint Managing Director] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

Tour of knitwear factory. [Sample to be presented to Prime Minister] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1440

Depart for Market Harborough

1505

Arrive for Whistlestop [NOT TO BE PUBLICISED. To be met by: John Farr, Candidate Harborough & Supporters] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1510

Depart Market Harborough for Burton Latimer

1535

Arrive to visit Weetabix Ltd. [To be met by: Mr. Richard George, Chairman & Joint Managing Director, Mr. William George, President & Joint Managing Director, and other senior Directors] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

Tour factory [principally new block where Weetabix is produced] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1605

Depart for Pytchley

1610

Arrive Pytchley House [To be met by: Sir Gerald and Lady Glover, Candidates & supporters from Corby, Daventry, Kettering, Northampton North and South, and Wellingborough – NOT TO BE PUBLICISED] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1630

Take off from Pytchley by helicopter for Battersea

1715

Arrive Battersea Heliport [transfer to cars] [THCR 2/7/3/50]

1730

Arrive No. 10

2130

[Beating Retreat]

MT Engagement Diary