The Moonlighter
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Would all who are booked on tomorrow's Tour please note that there will be a Founders Trail welcome desk available within Bar 72 West at Ibrox Stadium from 11.15am prior to our 12pm departure from outside of the Ibrox Megastore
Access to Bar 72 is via the main entrance to Argyle House .
This will give us an opportunity to greet you, check you from our loading chart and distribute our travel packs.
Parking is available throughout the day around Ibrox Stadium.
If you have any questions before the tour please don't hesitate in contacting us on 0790 2855536.
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This is the Italian Gardens in Penarth where the Memorial Plaque will be placed next month.
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Our research had previously established that Rangers had been hosting their Annual ‘’Hop’’ in the Queens Rooms Clifton Street Glasgow which is a location on the Founders Trail.
Earlier this week this gem was discovered by Gordon.
Highlights include Club captain Tom Vallance speaking of ‘’the high position that the Club had obtained from very humble origins, a position gained solely by patience, pluck and unanimity’’.
His reference to the ‘’ Rangers Banner’’ is wonderful.
This is the building blocks being put in place which ensured that the Club always maintained high standards.
This is a central theme on the Founders Trail.
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As the new season approaches cheer on the Rangers and support the Founders Trail with one of our popular scarves which are designed on the original colours of the Club.
They are only £12.00 (+£3.00 P&P) and can be purchased here on our website.
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/shop
All orders are posted out within 24 hours.
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We'd like to thank Lodge Airdrie St John 166 for hosting what was a cracking event on Sunday.
The Presentation was well received by a large audience.
After the Presentation the Lodge donated £50 to the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project.
Our collection bucket was also sent around the hall which raised further £74.25
Thank you.
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Moses McNeil’s mother Jane Louden Bain(Bean) was born in 1815 in Downpatrick County Down.
Her father was a Henry Bain(Bean) a grocer and general merchant,his parents came from Kilmore.
They came to Glasgow and Jane married a John McNeil from Comrie Perthshire on the 31st December 1839.
The rest as they say is history.
Jane Louden Bain McNeil and John McNeil rest with their sons Peter and William in Craigton Cemetery Glasgow.
The Bain/McNeil family story forms part of our Founders Presentation which we took across to Newtownards a couple of years ago, an event which was organised by a good friend of the project Alan Ferguson from Ballynahinch.
Alan was intrigued by the story of Moses family link with the Downpatrick area and has spent the last couple of years researching their story but unfortunately ran into the usual problems of lost records and names being misspelt on documents
Just last week Alan contacted us full of joy as he’d finally made the breakthrough.
He’s located the final resting places of the Great Grandparents and Grandparents of our Founder Moses McNeil in the grounds of Down Cathedral in Downpatrick.
Both graves are only yards from the plot of St.Patrick.
On top of this another mystery may have been solved.
Moses brothers and sisters had fairly ordinary names, Peter, Elizabeth, William, John, James, Henry, Isabella and Alexander and then along came Moses, who’s name was a break from the mould,this has always intrigued us.
Alan’s research has discovered that the family minister back in Kilmore in 1833 was a MOSES Black.
We’d like to thank Alan for his research which he stuck with through periods of frustration.
This has added another layer to what is a wonderful story.
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Would all who are booked on tomorrow's Tour please note that there will be a Founders Trail welcome desk available within Bar 72 West at Ibrox Stadium from 11.15am prior to our 12pm departure from outside of the Ibrox Megastore
Access to Bar 72 is via the main entrance to Argyle House .
This will give us an opportunity to greet you, check you from our loading chart and distribute our travel packs.
Parking is available throughout the day around Ibrox Stadium.
If you have any questions before the tour please don't hesitate in contacting us on 0790 2855536.
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£5 entry which can be paid on the door guys.
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Today we’re delighted to announce that after a lengthy period of negotiation with Penarth Council a Memorial Plaque dedicated to our Founder Peter Campbell will be unveiled at :
The Italian Gardens The Esplanade Penarth CF64 3AU on Saturday 22nd July at 11.45.
The plaque is made of Welsh Slate.
The inscription at the bottom reads ALWAYS READY.
The Italian Gardens overlook the estuary where Peter’s ship began that fateful voyage and it’s a popular area with tourists.
After the dedication the Cardiff Rangers Supporters Club will host a celebration of Peter Campbell’s life and all things Rangers at the:
Canton Lib Club 301-303 Cowbridge Road East , Canton, Cardiff, CF5 1JD.
Everyone is welcome.
Peter Campbell.
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/peter-campbell
Following in family tradition Peter ,who had been employed at the Barclay Curle Yard on the Clyde , left Glasgow for a life at sea and joined a ship the St. Columba.
On the 28th January 1883 the vessel left Penarth Port in South Wales with a cargo of coal destined for Bombay in India.
Tragically, it ran into a storm in the Bay of Biscay and went down with all hands lost, including that of our 25 year old Founder Peter Campbell.
The youngest of our Pioneers was taken from us.
In the January of 2015 I travelled to Penarth and along with the Cardiff RSC met with the local Council and discussed the possibility of having a memorial plaque placed at Penarth commemorating Peter Campbell’s contribution in forming Rangers Football Club and his tragic fate.
Penarth Council were touched by Peter’s story but as is so often the case our proposal had to be passed through various council departments for approval and subsequently got caught up in red tape.
Last Friday I was delighted to receive notification from Russell Calderwood of the Cardiff RSC, who has played a huge part in this project, that the proposal for the Plaque, and a date for the dedication event had finally been given the go ahead.
This dedication is a thank you from the worldwide Rangers support to our Founder Peter Campbell.
Placing these memorials and restoring others around the country will help to ensure that those kids who formed our wonderful Club and many others will never be forgotten.
Further details will be posted over the coming weeks.
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Would all who are booked on tomorrow's Tour please note that there will be a Founders Trail welcome desk available within Bar 72 West at Ibrox Stadium from 11.15am prior to our 12pm departure from outside of the Ibrox Megastore
Access to Bar 72 is via the main entrance to Argyle House .
This will give us an opportunity to greet you, check you from our loading chart and distribute our travel packs.
Parking is available throughout the day around Ibrox Stadium.
If you have any questions before the tour please don't hesitate in contacting us on 0790 2855536.
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Our Founders Presentation in Clough now on the Club website
https://rangers.co.uk/news/club/clough-rsc-welcome-founders-trail/
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Reserve your seat here via the booking system on our website.
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/book-online
For further information call us on 0790 2855536
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During the course of the Presentation we'll also give an insight into the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project and of course the Founders Trail.
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The Founders Trail group on Fleshers Haugh.
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Join us tomorrow night and hear the greatest story never told...........until now.
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The Presentation will also provide an insight into The Rangers Graves Restoration Project and of course The Founders Trail.
We hope to see a few of you along on Saturday night.
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Still a few seats left for our annual trip to Rosneath.
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Update.
I spoke to Torry Gillick's son at the weekend.
He thanked us for highlighting his Dad's plot but said that plans are already in place to have the stone put back on the plinth.
I have offered any assistance that we can should it be required.
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With Father’s Day just over a week away why not treat Dad to the Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour Gift Voucher.
Adults £25
Senior Citizens and Children( under 16) £18
£1 P+P per order.
The Gift Vouchers are without limit of time and reserves a seat on any Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour of your choice (allowing for availability).
Gift Vouchers can be purchased here on our website.
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Yesterday afternoon at Greenock Cemetery restoration work was carried out on the plot of Tommy Thomson.
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On the 27th May 1856 the Rangers great that was Tom Vallance was born.
To quote his Rangers team-mates from the 1870’s ‘’ The whole of Rangers loved him like a brother’’
Over the years of our research into the formation of our Club one name kept popping up time and again and that’s the name of Tom Vallance who had on reflection been sadly overlooked.
Tom was born at a small farmhouse known as Succoth near Renton in the parish of Cardross.
When young he moved with his family to the Old Toll House at Shandon on the Gareloch.
Tom came to Glasgow in the early 1870’s following the path taken by his friends, whom he’d known since childhood, the brothers McNeil and Campbell .
Tom Vallance had an astonishing 60 year association with the Club, and his is
an incredible CV.
He was a master oarsman, a champion athlete (he set a Scottish long jump record of over 21 feet), he studied at the Glasgow School of Art, had paintings accepted by the Royal Scottish Academy and was Rangers Club Captain and President for many years.
We have recorded details of Tom Vallance being present at the ceremony held on 1st January 1929 which saw the opening of the Main Stand at Ibrox and also at a dinner which was held in the St.Enoch’s Hotel after a Rangers match in 1933 when we faced Sporting Club of Vienna. He was also a guest of the Club at the New Year’s Day fixture that season against Celtic.
So, the lad who was present at Fleshers Haugh in 1872 was still attending Ibrox some 60 years later where the Club that he’d helped form and nurture were now playing in front of crowds in excess of 100,000.
Tom was a very successful business man. He had The Club restaurant at 22 Paisley Road West which today is the Viceroy Bar, The Metropolitan which stood on Hutchison Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow and the Lansdowne which was at 183 Hope Street.
Tom was having the Rangers results wired to his restaurants for the benefit of his patrons as early as 1890.
When Rangers moved to First Ibrox in 1887 it was said that it was common for Club President Vallance to be working the turnstiles on matchday.
At the opening of the Main Stand in 1929 Tom Vallance recalled the facilities being so cramped at the Rangers ground at Kinning Park that the players would have to wash in basins of cold water in the open air.
It was the teenage Tom Vallance who helped lay the very foundations upon which our Club was built, hard-work, discipline, honesty, integrity and fair play .
Mr. Struth said during that famous speech “No matter the days of anxiety that come our way, we shall emerge stronger because of the trials to be overcome. That has been the philosophy of the Rangers since the days of the Gallant Pioneers”
Tom was paid the ultimate accolade by the Club in May 1898 when he was made a life member.
As a lasting tribute to the incredible contribution he made to our Club we had Tom put on to canvas by way of a painting by artist Helen Runciman .
Tom Vallance has now taken his rightful place at the top of the Marble Staircase alongside his friends and fellow Founders.
Tom died on 16th February 1935 aged 78 at 189 Pitt Street Glasgow.
He is buried in Hillfoot Cemetery in Bearsden and his funeral was attended by Mr. Struth, Chairman James Bowie and his old team-mate James McIntyre who both took a cord.
Incredibly ,players from the Vale of Leven team whom Tom had faced 60 years earlier in 1877 were also in attendance.
Tom was one of the originals, one of the greats.
Today we celebrate the life of Tom Vallance.
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At the Presentation we'll have our full range of Founders Trail merchandise available to purchase.
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The Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour Additional Dates.
in Rangers Chat
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We’re delighted to add the following dates to our 2017 Trail programme and thank you for your continued support.
Sunday 20th August
Sunday 3rd September
Sunday 24th September
Sunday 7th October
Sunday 22nd October
Sunday 5th November
Sunday 19th November
***Tour dates may be subject to change due to football fixtures**.
Prices are as follows.
Adults £25
Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £18
Group discounts are available upon request.
Please reserve your seats here.
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/book-online