This year’s political party conferences have been held online due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But for generations the nation’s heavyweight politicians would descend on Lancashire for their annual jamboree.
Most years the traditional autumn get-together would see one of the major political parties setting up camp at the Winter Gardens, in Blackpool, to outline policies and give members a chance to rub shoulders with their party’s leading lights.
As many as 20 past, present or future Conservative and Labour Prime Ministers have headed to the Lancashire seaside to address delegates and the wider nation.
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Labiur leader Neil Kinnock with his wife Glenys at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool in 1986
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A 16-year-old William Hague addressing the Conservative Party Conference at Blackpool in 1977
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David Owen and Shirley Williams - who would later set up the SDP - at the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool in 1980
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Conservative Alexander Douglas-Home at Blackpool a year before becoming Prime Minister in 1963