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Tk John Peel Sessions Omitted is track 20 Stranger In The House, officially released. Sourced from vinyl bootlegs, scratchy with a skip on Track 3. Not sourced from vinyl. Raw soundboard with Elvis sounding gruff.

Date: October 12, I am sending my father, William James Rader’s photo album detailing his tour in Kodiak during the Korean War in the US Navy. He passed away in at 79 years of age from lung cancer.

First a few images. Hover your mouse over each thumbnail to read the subject matter. The operational dates above are surely not perfect. A ‘best effort’ at a sequence, if you will. If you can refine the information, do be in touch. Information on the history of ‘Blumer’ of Sunderland seems to be quite limited. But much of the data that follows is thanks to the efforts of Ray Ranns, who lives near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, U.

Ray has been most busy assembling data about the family history, building upon materials assembled by his father ‘Noel Blumer Ranns’. Of which John Blumer was one. But you should also know that the Blumer family was involved in shipbuilding in nearby Hartlepool. While the business was mainly in the repair of ships they did keep their workforce busy with new construction when the repair business was quiet. And they built 10 vessels during the short lifetime of the firm. Which ceased to exist at or about the time that George Blumer died in