Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Fri 3 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

Friday 3 June 1983

[Handwritten original lists an appointment marked as cancelled, apparently because of MT’s election tour. See THCR 2/7/3/51 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

1050

Depart Central Office by car for Battersea Heliport

1105

Helicopter to Stoneleigh Abbey, Kenilworth

1150

Arrive Stoneleigh Abbey [To bet met by: Mrs. Alma Hill, C.B.E. – Area Chairman & Mr. L. Wolstenholme B.E.M. – Central Office Agent] [THCR 2/7/3/51]

1200

Meet and address Candidates and Party workers from the Coventry and Warwickshire Constituencies gathered at Stoneleigh Abbey [NOT TO BE PUBLICISED] [THCR 2/7/3/51]

1225

Leave for Allesley Hotel in Campaign Coach

1240

Arrive Allesley Hotel, Coventry

Regional TV interview

Buffet lunch with Regional Editors [off the record] [THCR 2/7/3/51] [John Holland (Birmingham Post), Ken Freeman (Deputy Editor, Birmingham Evening Mail), Geoffrey Elliott (Coventry Evening Telegraph), Keith Parker (Express and Star, Wolverhampton), Chris Watkins (Deputy Editor, Sunday Mercury), John Bradbury (Sandwell Mail), Don Goggin (West Midlands Press), John Algar (Retiring from Heart of England Newspapers after 22 years), David Griffin (Berrows Group), Reg Harcourt (Central TV), Gordon Randall (B.B.C. Television), Peter Lowe (Mercia Sound), Peter Brooks (Beacon Radio), Brian Shepherd (B.R.M.B.), Andrew Thurman (Radio West Midlands)] [2/7/3/59 f161]

1400

Depart for Aston Science Park

1430

Arrive [To be met by: The Managing Director and representatives of the Birmingham City Council and the University] [THCR 2/7/3/51]

1515

Depart Science Park for the NEC

1535

Arrive “Birmingham Mail” Ideal Home Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre for brief tour [The Prime Minister will be invited to say a few words from a prepared rostrum] [THCR 2/7/3/51]

1620

Depart for the Metropole Hotel [Manager Mr. Graham Golby] [THCR 2/7/3/51]

1625

Arrive Hotel

Speech preparation

1800

Light supper in suite

1912

Leave for the Rally in the Palace Suite of the Hotel [accompanied by Mrs. Hill and Mr. Wolstenholme] [THCR 2/7/3/51]

1915

West Midlands Area Ralley [Chairman: Mrs. Alma Hill C.B.E., Area Chairman] [THCR 2/7/3/51]

2030

Leave by car for London

2200

Arrive No. 10

MT Engagement Diary