The Margaret Thatcher Plaque

This plaque was erected in 2019 at one of the former Colchester homes of Margaret Thatcher, who became the first woman Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.

Having graduated from Oxford in 1947, Margaret Thatcher nee Roberts moved to Colchester to take up employment as a research chemist for BX Plastics in Brantham. The plaque was unveiled by Will Quince MP for Colchester at the Colchester English Study Centre, 19 Lexden Road, Colchester CO3 3PW- one of the three places in Colchester where the former Prime Minister once lived – the other locations being Maldon Road and Cambridge Road.