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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5. Sir John Major
The 2018 South Shields Lecture with The Rt. Hon. David Miliband and The Rt.Hon. Sir John Major at Harton Academy | sg
6. Gordon Brown
Here's Gordon Brown in July 2008 when he visited the cardiology department of Sunderland Royal Hospital. | se
7. Tony Blair
Tony Blair got to meet some of the students and staff during his visit to the new science facilities at Framwellgate School in Durham in 2005. | se
8. Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher with Cllr Tim Brown, leader of the Tory opposition on Sunderland Borough Council, during her tour of factories on the Pallion Industrial estate in 1980. | se