Margaret Thatcher Engagement Diary - Tue 1 October 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

Tuesday 1 October 1985

0910

Depart No. 10 + Sir Robin Nicholson and Mr. Flesher

1025

Arrive: Visit Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for opening of the Spallation Neutron Source [see THCR 6-2-2-124 f16 for detailed timetable and provisional VIP list, which includes Sir Keith Joseph, Professor Mitchell, Sir K. Kingman, Mr Brooke, Mr Skeet, Mr Jackson, Mr Pattie, Professor Cadogan, Professor Fender, Dr. Catterall, Dr. Manning, Dr. Atkinson, Professor Leadbetter, Mr Gray, Sir G. Allen, Dr. Stafford, Dr. Pickavance, Sir R. Nicholson, Mr Tanner]

1245

Depart

1400c

Late lunch in flat

1515

Secretary of State for Health and Social Services [Norman Fowler]

1615

John Carlisle MP and Mr. Powell (South Africa) [+ Michael Alison: see his engagement diary, 2/6/3/9 f39]

1640

Sir Patrick Wall, M.P., and Mr. Powell (North Atlantic Assembly) [No.10] [+ Michael Alison: see his engagement diary, 2/6/3/9 f39]

1700

Interview with Sunday Mirror and Mr. Ingham

1800

Harvey Thomas and Stephen Sherbourne (Party Conference) [No.10]

1900

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary [Sir Geoffrey Howe]

Supper in Flat

2030

Sir David Wolfson [Flat]

2100

Chief Whip [John Wakeham]

MT Engagement Diary