Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Fri 15 March 1985

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR6/1/2/7
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; PREM32/19 is the manuscript version of the diary, PREM32/7 the typed one.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Friday 15 March 1985

[Regional Tour: Wessex Area [+Newbury] [DT away]]

[Engagement card has fuller details of MT’s engagements for the day: THCR 1/7/41 f40]

0845

[Depart for Wellington Barracks]

0850

Drive to Henley on Thames

1000

Arrive Videcom Limited, Newtown Estate, Reading Road [Met by Mr. Keith Barker, Managing Director; Mrs. Mary Barker, Purchasing Director; Ms. Hilary Barker, Travel Systems; Mr. Iain Barker, Hardware Design: 1/7/41 f40]

Tour

1040

Take off for Witney

1055

Land at H.R. Smith, New Mill, Crawley Road, Witney [Met by Mr. H R Smith, Chairman; Mr. R.E.L. Smith, M.D.; Mr. G.E. Farquhar, Director: 1/7/41 f40]

Tour

1150

Take off for Milton Heights

1200

Land Milton

Drive to Home Farm Trust and tour home [Met by Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong, Manager and wife. Introduced to Mr. Basil Fish, Deputy Manager: 1/7/41 f40]

1250

Depart for Abingdon

1310

Arrive Abbey Hall, The Guildhall for Lunch [Reception for Party Workers. Met by Mrs. Joyce Billings, Chrmn of Wessex Provincial Area. Constituency Association reps from Oxfordshire: Banbury, Henley, Oxford East, Oxford West and Abingdon, Wantage, Witney. [P]lus reps from three Euro-constituencies: The Cotswolds, Oxford & Bucks, Wiltshire. Short speech after introduction by Mrs. Billings at lunch. Vote of thanks by Mr. Steven Norris, MP: 1/7/41 f40]

1425

Leave for Newbury

1450

Arrive St. Bartholomew’s School, Andover Road, Newbury

Tour school

1630

Take off for Stoke Poges

1645

Arrive Stoke Green House, Stoke Green for Party tea [Reception for members of Beaconsfield and Chesham & Amersham Associations.

Met by Mrs. Phyllis Watkins, Chrmn of Beaconsfield Cons. Association, and Mr. Simon Card, Chairman of Chesham & Amersham Cons. Association

… Vote of thanks by Mr. Tim Smith MP: 1/7/41 f40]

1745

Depart for Chequers

MT Engagement Diary