All of these well-known faces were in the news on visits to Sunderland, Durham and South Tyneside in the past and they were all Prime Ministers at one time.
We have scenes from 1931 to 2024 showing Prime Ministers in the North East and they include Harold Wilson, Ramsay MacDonald, Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher.
Others have included Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Gordon Brown and they came to the region to speak at conferences, open new buildings and sometimes to back exciting new projects.
Get in touch if you were at one of these visits and got to meet the Prime Minister whether he was on Wearside or South Tyneside.
Or maybe there has been another major figure who you got to meet when they came to the North East, whether it was a star of TV or film, a sports personality or perhaps royalty.
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1. Harold Macmillan
Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, was pictured during a visit to Sunderland in January 1959 and look at the crowds which turned out to see him. | se
2. Ramsey MacDonald
Seaham Harbour MP Ramsey MacDonald flew from Easington following the 1931 election. A National Government was elected, with MacDonald as Prime Minister. | se
3. Rishi Sunak
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt during their visit to Sunderland in 2024 to support a multimillion-pound project to develop one of Europe's largest film-making complexes. Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire | Owen Humphreys/PA Wire
4. Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson starts to speak at the 2021 CBI annual conference, held at The Port of Tyne, South Shields. Picture by FRANK REID | sg