MT Engagement Diary

Document type:	Declassified documents
Source:	THCR 6/1/2/2
Editorial comments:	Taken from a typed version of the appointment diary prepared in the Garden Room at some point following MT’s resignation. The original remained in the custody of the Cabinet Office. Material has been added to this entry from the handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary, accessed at the Cabinet Office prior to transfer to TNA. The full text of that volume can be accessed here.
Importance ranking:	Minor
Word count:	1p

Friday 23 May 1980

1000-1200    [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: [Trooping Rehearsal].]
               [Material from handwritten original of the 1980 appointment diary: Regional Tour +DT. North East.]
0810   Left Royal County Hotel
0830-1000   Visited nursery factories, St. Luke’s Road, Sunderland
1015-1140   Visited Austin and Pickersgill, Shipbuilders, Wearside
1150   Met Mayor of Sunderland and Leader of Sunderland Council at the Civic Centre (drinks)
1215   Left Civic Centre for walkabout in Sunderland Market Place
1250   Left Sunderland Market Place
1315   Arrived British Gas Corporation
1330   Pre-lunch drinks and buffet lunch in School of Engineering
1420-1520   Tour of Research Station
1545   Visited On-Line Inspection Centre, Cramlington
1600-1645   Tour of Centre
1645   Speeches of farewell
1650   Left Cramlington for Newcastle
1715   Arrived Gosforth Park Hotel, Newcastle
1730-1910   Reception for Party workers at Gosforth Park Hotel, Newcastle
              Drove to Newcastle Airport
1935   Took off for Northolt
2025   Landed and drove to Chequers

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