The Northern Echo:

This brilliant picture in The Northern Echo's Cummins factory packet rather took me by surprise when it fell out last night. It says on the back that it is Ossie O'Brien addressing a meeting against Cummins' closure plans on December 8, 1986 (the factory didn't close), but then my eye scanned across those behind him.

Left to right:
Tony Blair, elected MP for Sedgefield in 1983, and went on to bigger things;
Stephen Hughes, North-East MEP from 1984 to 2014;
Derek Foster, MP for Bishop Auckland from 1979 to 2005, and is now Lord Foster of Bishop Auckland;
Man with glasses (unknown);
Michael Fallon, currently the Secretary of State for Defence who unseated Ossie O'Brien as Darlington MP in 1983. Mr Fallon represented the town until 1992;
Man in boilersuit (unknown);
Heather Scott, currently leader of the Conservatives on Darlington council, Mrs Scott became a councillor in 1976, was mayor in 1988 and was awarded an OBE in 1989;
Philip Stamford-Bewlay, was leader of the Conservative group on Darlington council when he died in 2006. He'd been a councillor for 38 years;
Ossie O'Brien, was Darlington's MP for just five weeks and one day - the fifth shortest Parliamentary career - in 1983. He stood against Mr Fallon in 1987, but lost by 2,661 votes. He died in 1997;
Jim Skinner, for 41 years a Labour councillor in Darlington, for a decade as council leader. He received an MBE in 1982, and died in 2008, aged 88.

Who are the two unknowns?

Of course, Cummins didn't close. In fact, this summer, it is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the town.