Margaret Thatcher at Tallantire Hall
Shaun Castle 06 July 2006
This picture from the archives of the Times & Star shows Margaret Thatcher giving a speech from the balcony of Tallantire Hall on 19th June 1976, in the company of husband Denis and Willie Whitelaw, part of her campaign of rebuilding grass-roots conservatism outside of the Home Counties. Just a year after winning the leadership of the party, and three from becoming prime minister, Margaret Thatcher's speech at Tallantire was already extolling the virtues of closer US ties, which would later frame her premiership. This was the year of the IMF crisis, the Jeremy Thorpe scandal, the hose pipe ban, of Concorde going into service, and the Sex Pistols.
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