Friday 10 May 1985
(Mr. Thatcher’s 70th birthday)
0700 [Material from handwritten original of the 1985 appointment diary: (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
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