Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Fri 10 May 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 10 May 1985

(Mr. Thatcher’s 70th birthday)

0700

[(Rehearsal)]

0830

Hair

0900

Photocall with DT, Front Hall, No. 10

All morning

Keep free for Scottish Conference Speech

1300 c

Look in if possible at Kay Dover’s farewell party

Lunch in Flat

1415

Secretary of State for Energy [Peter Walker]

1530

Depart No. 10 + DT, Michael Alison and Stephen Sherbourne

Drive to Northolt

1630

Depart Northolt for Scone (Laing plane) [for Scottish Conservative Party Conference, with DT, Michael Alison, Stephen Sherbourne, Tessa Gaisman and Mrs Meadowcroft: see THCR 1/1/24 for programme]

1750

Arrive Scone

1800

Arrive Balcraig House Hotel

Met Sir James Goold

1840

Left Balcraig House Hotel

1850

Arrive City Hall, Perth

1900

Address Conservative Party Conference

Followed by presentation by local association

Return to Balcraig House Hotel

2100

Dinner [see 2/10/39 f114: Donald Maclean, Fiona Ogg, Alec Douglas-Home, Elizabeth Douglas-Home, Mary Dalgleish, Iain McCrone, James Highgate, Donald Rennie, Matthew Goodwin, Heather Waterston, Jackson Carlaw, George Younger, Michael Alison, John Mathieson, James Goold, Alistair Smith, Ian Lang, Jean Chalmers, William Henderson, David Sinnott, Cicely Giles, Alex Calvert, Eric Harper]

2330

Agents’ Ball, Station Hotel, Perth

MT Engagement Diary