The Moonlighter

Another event for the diary folks. It will be an honour for us to present the Founders Story at The 30 Social Club (Orange Hall) on Saturday 21st October at 7.30pm. This is a fund-raiser for the West Benhar Rising Star JLOL 6 . The Social Club is at West Main Street Harthill ML7 5QD Tickets are £10 which includes post presentation entertainment and a hot pie! Please order your tickets from Yvonne Ferrie on 07767 159573 We hope to see a few of you there!

We still have a few seats left for our annual trip to Rosneath. 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

Seats are still available for this Tour. Adults : £25 Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £18. Places can be reserved here on our website. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/book-online

It will be an honour for us to present the Founders Story at Lodge Airdrie St John on Sunday 18th June at 2pm. The hall is at 19 Broomknoll Street Airdrie ML6 6BN. Entry is £5 which can be paid on the door. Everyone is welcome.

We’re delighted to announce that the winner of the ticket for Sunday’s match is Ewen McMartin. Congratulations Ewen!! A wonderful £260 was raised for the Restortation of Rangers Graves Project. A huge thanks to everyone who donated and well done Ewen.

18 Seats have just become available on the Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour Saturday 20th May. Adults : £25 Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £18. Seats can be reserved here on our website. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/book-online

Less than 24 hours until the winning name is drawn! To be in with a chance of winning the match ticket please donate £5 by following the link here on our website. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/t...rangers-graves

Update: Yesterday morning restoration work began on the plot of George Nelson at Craigton Cemetery in Glasgow. Our Restoration team also blast cleaned the stones of Alexander McNeil and his brothers Peter , William and James. The McNeil brothers rest beside each other along with their parents. Both stones will have the inscriptions re-done over the next couple of weeks. We will then focus on the plot of Tommy Thomson in Greenock Cemetery. Regular updates will be posted.

Still plenty of time to join the party at Hampden on Sunday! To be in with a chance of winning the match ticket please donate £5 by following the link here on our website. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/t...rangers-graves Every penny will go to the Restoration Project. The winner will be drawn and notified on Friday at 12pm.

The Restoration of Rangers Graves Project yesterday received a donation of £1,000 from the Hillsborough Ibrox Memorial Group. This incredible gesture will help to ensure that our restoration work continues over the coming weeks and months. We’d like to publicly offer our thanks and gratitude for this overwhelming donation. The Hillsborough Ibrox Memorial Group. http://www.himg.co.uk/

If the winner is from the Glasgow/ Central Scotland area i can arrange to meet on Saturday. If from further afield then we can meet at Hampden on Sunday. Donate and enter Friday's draw here. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/t...rangers-graves Good luck everyone.

We regret to announce that due to building work on the Masonic hall this event has had to be cancelled.

We have a ticket for Sunday’s Semi Final which has been donated by a fellow supporter who wishes to remain anonymous. He is making this wonderful gesture to aid the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project and we’d like to publicly offer our sincere thanks. To be in with a chance of winning the match ticket please donate £5 by following the link here on our website. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/the-restoration-of-rangers-graves Every penny will go to the Restoration Project. The winner will be drawn and notified on Friday at 12pm.

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.

Next Friday night folks. It's always a cracking event in Kilmacolm Tickets can be purchased here. lodge989sect@gmail.com

Due to the post split fixtures being released this morning we've unfortunately had to change two of our Founders Trail dates. Sunday 7th May will now run on Saturday 6th May Sunday 21st May will now run on Saturday 20th May. If any of these dates aren't suitable please email us at thefounderstrail@gmail.com or call 0790 2855536. All passengers booked will be notified. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause

On the 13th April 1898 a supper was held in Tom Vallance’s Metropolitan Restaurant at 40 Hutchison Street Merchant City Glasgow. The event was to mark the 21st Anniversary of our first Scottish Cup Final in 1877 v Vale of Leven. It was this series of games that was to change the course of our Club’s history. The small memorial plaque at the bottom of the invitation lists players whom we’d sadly lost since the Cup Final. Sandy Marshall, Peter Campbell, William Dunlop and goalkeeper James Watt. As a footnote, Tom Vallance was actually having the results of Rangers matches wired to his restaurants and announced to his patrons as early as the 1890’s. The series of games that was the 1877 Scottish Cup Final not only created a fierce rivalry between Rangers and Vale of Leven it also cemented great friendships that would last for over 50 years. Anniversary dinners were held in 1887, 1898 and 1907. As late as the 1930’s the surviving team members including our own Tom Vallance would often take a sail up Loch Lomond from Balloch and stop off for lunch and a few drinks at a Hotel. Incredibly one of these reunions was captured on a home movie which can be viewed here: http://blog.thegallantpioneers.co.uk/wp/?p=774 Tom Vallance. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/tom-vallance

Earlier today I met Tommy Thomson’s Daughter and Granddaughter at Greenock Cemetery. Restoration work on Tommy’s plot will be carried out over the next few weeks. Tommy Thomson. Work will commence on George Nelson’s plot at Craigton Cemetery this Friday, weather permitting.

It will be an honour for us to take the Founders story across to Northern Ireland and present it at the Clough Rangers Supporters Club on Saturday 3rd June at 7pm. The event will be held at: Clough Glasgow Rangers Supporters Club 1 Springmount Rd, Clough, Ballymena BT44 9RF. Food and live music will follow the presentation. Tickets available at Clough RSC 028 2568 5611 and from Clough Vivo.

We still have a few seats left on this Tour. Adults : £25 Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £18. Group discounts are available upon request. Reserve your seat here: https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/book-online For further information please call 0790 2855536

We still have plenty of seats left for our trip to Rosneath. 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

On the 9th April 1938 our Founder Moses McNeil passed at Townend Hospital Dumbarton. Moses spent the last few years of his life living with his sister, Isabella, in Clynder at Craig Cottage. She died in 1935, to be followed by her brother, the last of the siblings, in 1938. Only 9 months after Moses’ passing Rangers would set their record attendance at Ibrox Park of 118,000 . It’s a comforting thought that our Founder was sitting in his cottage while the Club that he’d help form and nurture were now one of the biggest in the World. They lie together with their sister Elizabeth and Isabella’s husband, Duncan Gray, in the lovely churchyard at Rosneath. But sadly for the man who gave Rangers their name his own isn’t inscribed on the family headstone. The late Sandy Jardine was a great supporter of the Founders project and had expressed a desire to have a plaque with Moses name on it placed at the churchyard at Rosneath and this is a project that we completed on Sandy’s behalf on Sunday 28th June 2015. Our Restoration team cleaned Moses stone and placed an engraved plaque which was purchased after funds were raised via the Rangers support. Today we remember Moses McNeil. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/moses-mcneil

It will be an honour for us to once again present the Founders Story at Lodge Sir Michael Kilmacolm on Friday 21st April at 7.30pm. The Masonic Hall is at Glebe Road Kilmacolm PA13 4AT. This is our third visit to the Lodge and it’s always a cracking evening. Tickets are priced at £10 (includes a light snack) can be purchased here: lodge989sect@gmail.com As part of our drive to raise funds for the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project we’ll be raffling this framed signed jersey on the evening.

Last night we presented the Founders Story at Parkhead Orange Hall. We’d like to thank Tollcross Purple Star LOL 84 for hosting the event. It was easily one of the best presentation evenings that we’ve had. A wonderful £148.04 was raised via our Restoration Project bucket. We were also presented with a donation of £100 from the Baillieston True Blues RSC. We'd like to thank everyone for their generosity. Every penny counts and will help our restoration work continue over the coming months. Donations can be made here on our website or in person before any future match at Ibrox. https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/the-restoration-of-rangers-graves The Restoration of the Sam Ricketts plot at Craigton Cemetery.