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Once again due to overwhelming demand we're delighted to add another date to next year’s Tour programme. SUNDAY 5TH FEBRUARY. This is added to our list of dates and current availability is : SUNDAY 5TH FEBRUARY SUNDAY 19TH FEBRUARY (SOLD OUT) SATURDAY 25TH MARCH (ONLY 4 SEATS AVAILABLE) SUNDAY 16TH APRIL SUNDAY 21ST MAY SUNDAY 11TH JUNE SATURDAY 15TH JULY. Gift Vouchers are available to purchase and are valid for all future Tours, allowing for availability. Adults : £25 Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £18. Group discounts are available upon request. To reserve your seat just send an email to : thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com

What follows is a blog we posted a couple of years ago about this incredible trophy that was purchased at an Ayrshire jumble sale! It was won by the Rangers Tug of War team in 1880. Captain of the team was James Watt who was a member of the legendary 1877 team. We recently restored James’s final resting place at Craigton Cemetery. The Blog: http://blog.thegallantpioneers.co.uk/wp/?p=804

Join us on a journey back to 1872 and finish your day with a Tour of our magnificent Ibrox Stadium.

An ideal gift for Christmas and only £13.00 ( plus £1.50 P+P). We have copies of The Updated Gallant Pioneers book all signed by author Gary Ralston available . All chapters have been updated since the original book was released in 2009. An additional chapter on the story of the Founders Trail has also been added. It's a must read for all True Blues ! To obtain a copy please send an email to thegallantpioneers@gmail.com and we'll have your book posted the same day. The Gallant Pioneers was released to critical acclaim in 2009, revealing the inspiring yet heart breaking stories behind the four teenagers who formed Rangers in 1872. Journalist Gary Ralston used fresh research and hitherto unseen documents to sympathetically recount the stories of 15-year-olds William McBeath and Peter Campbell, 16-year-old Moses McNeil and his brother Peter, 17. They were soon joined by Tom Vallance, another 16-year-old, who quickly became skipper of the fledgling club. New information, photographs and stories about the major players have emerged since the first publication to paint an even fuller picture of the boys who formed one of the world's great football clubs. The thirst for knowledge of the the Gallant Pioneers in recent years has also inspired the Founders Trail, which has taken thousands of Rangers fans around Glasgow and the Gareloch to see the homes, public halls and playing pitches from which the club developed in Victorian Britain. A percentage of all book sales will go towards the Founders Trail to help continue the research into the early years' history of the Rangers.

Our Gift Vouchers are proving once again to be very popular at this time of year. Adults £25 Senior Citizens and Children( under 16) £18 £1 P+P per order The Gift Voucher reserves a seat any Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour of your choice. To purchase your Gift Voucher please send an email to thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com and we’ll post your Voucher out the same day. All Gift Vouchers purchased are valid for all future Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tours allowing for availability.

Our first Tour of 2017 and incredibly it's already heading for a sell-out, we only have 10 seats remaining. We also have Tours on the following dates and will undoubtedly be adding more. SATURDAY 25TH MARCH SUNDAY 16TH APRIL SUNDAY 21ST MAY SUNDAY 11TH JUNE SATURDAY 15TH JULY. To avoid disappointment please reserve your seat early. Prices are as follows. Adults £25 Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £18 Group discounts are available upon request. To reserve your seat just send an email to : thegallantpioneers@gmail.com For further information phone : 0790 2855536. An insight into our research can be found here on our website. http://www.thegallantpioneers.co.uk/

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The Gift Voucher reserves a seat on any Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour of your choice. To purchase your Gift Voucher please send an email to thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com and we’ll post your Voucher out the same day. All Gift Vouchers purchased are valid for all future Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tours allowing for availability. Adults £25 Senior Citizens and Children( under 16) £18 £1 P+P per order

We recently launched our first batch of Tour dates for 2017 and seats are being snapped up very quickly. To avoid disappointment please book as early as possible. Current availability is as follows: SUNDAY 19TH FEBRUARY 19 Seats SATURDAY 25TH MARCH 28 Seats SUNDAY 16TH APRIL 55 Seats SUNDAY 21ST MAY 65 Seats SUNDAY 11TH JUNE 65 Seats SATURDAY 15TH JULY. 65 Seats Prices are as follows. Adults £25 Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £18 Group discounts are available upon request. Gift Vouchers are available are are valid for all future Tour. http://www.thegallantpioneers.co.uk/...t-Voucher.html To reserve your seat just send an email to: thegallantpioneers@gmail.com For further information phone: 0790 2855536.

As the curtain draws on another Tour season we'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who joined us on the Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour during the last year. 2016 saw us take more people than ever before around Glasgow on our journey of discovery. Over the last seven years we’ve taken almost 6,500 people around Glasgow on the Trail and through the front doors of Ibrox for the Stadium Tour, many for the first time. Our Founders Presentation evenings continue to go from strength to strength , this is all possible because of the support we’ve received from yourselves. Over the last two years the Restoration Project has seen us restore 21 plots of those men who built our Club.Our research work on the Restorations and Founders project will continue over the winter. We've made new friends and met some wonderful characters all brought together by the Rangers family. A special thanks goes to the the media team at Rangers for helping to promote the Tours and our continued work on the Restoration Project. Also the staff at Partick Bowling Club, Parks of Hamilton and the Tour Guides at Ibrox. Last but not least, our resident gardeners at Craigton Cemetery who take great care of the McNeil ,Struth and many other plots. On Saturday the 19th November the Board of Directors at the Club joined us on the Founders Trail and this will see further expansion of the Tours over the coming weeks and months. The education process behind the Founders Trail is vitally important to us all as this will ensure that our unique and wonderful story is passed on to the next generation. The Founders Trail will return in February with an expansion on the Founders Story and new locations. Bookings for our first Tour dates for 2017 are coming in fast , they are as follows: SUNDAY 19TH FEBRUARY SATURDAY 25TH MARCH SUNDAY 16TH APRIL SUNDAY 21ST MAY SUNDAY 11TH JUNE SATURDAY 15TH JULY. To reserve your seat just send an email to thegallantpioneers@gmail.com Thank you. The Founders Team.

Hope to see a few of you at tonight's Presentation for the good people of Wishy.

Our final Tour of 2016. Would all who are booked on Sunday's Tour please also 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 and check you from our loading chart and to 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.

Gift Vouchers are valid for all future Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tours.

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Join us tomorrow night and we'll take you on a roller coaster of a journey from the birthplace of our Founders at the Gareloch through to the present day and the magnificent Ibrox Stadium.

This Saturday at the match against Dundee the Rangers Graves Restoration Team will be special guests of the Club. Taking their seats in the Directors Box will be: David Calderwood and Grant McIndoe. David and Grant are the guys who have placed new stones , repaired, cleaned and put back in place memorials that we’ve found lying on the grass of cemeteries around the country. Ian McKay. Ian follows on at the back of David and Grant and re-letters by hand, with great care and attention the inscriptions on stones that we’ve repaired and cleaned. Jean and Leslie White. Our resident gardeners...bluenoses with green fingers. Jean and Leslie are a retired couple who travel across to Craigton Cemetery at least once a month and keep in pristine condition the plots that we’ve restored,in particular those of Peter McNeil, Mr Struth and James Wilson. They take out weeds, cut the grass and plant new grass seed. All do an incredible job, the majority of it in their own time, and ensure that all work carried out is done with the love, care and attention that these men who built our Club deserve. I’d like to personally thank the Club for recognising their efforts. Enjoy your day guys.

It will be a great honour for us at the Founders Project to take our board of Directors around Glasgow this Saturday 19th November on the Founders Trail. The suggestion was put to them a few weeks ago that it was important that they fully understood the importance and responsibility that goes with carrying the torch that’s been passed down to them by our Founders. They agreed and said they’d be delighted to join us, then pressed us to find a suitable date! Joining us on Saturday will be : Paul Murray John Gilligan Stewart Robertson Andrew Dickson Graham Park John Bennet. Our aim is to get our unique story out to every employee at the Club and every Rangers supporter around the world to ensure that it’s passed on to the next generation. This is another huge step in achieving that goal..

Next Friday night folks. Come along and hear the incredible story, among many others, of Tom Vallance.

Thanks very much to all who have purchased scarves .These have been posted today. Still plenty in stock. Only £12.00 (+ £2.86 P&P) ,just drop us an email to thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com

Our new stock of scarves have arrived! They are only £12.00 (+ £2.86 P&P) and can be purchased by emailing us at thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com

Thanks to those who have purchased our Christmas bundles.Those ordered this afternoon will be posted out tomorrow. To order your bundle, email thegallantpioneers@gmail.com We also have other merchandise available to order via our website http://www.thegallantpioneers.co.uk/Merchandise.html or by email

Looking for a Rangers related gift for your loved one this Christmas? What could be better than waking up to some Founders Trail treats on Christmas morning?! In the run up to Christmas we’re offering a Founders Trail Bundle which includes a gift voucher*, scarf and pin badge for £33 (usually £39.50)Plus £2.85 P+P. To order your bundle, email thegallantpioneers@gmail.com *gift voucher is valid for all future Founders Trail & Ibrox Stadium Tours. We also have other merchandise available to order via our website http://www.thegallantpioneers.co.uk/Merchandise.html or by email

After our presentation evening at Stoneyburn on Saturday night LOL 37 presented us with a cheque for £150 for the Rangers Graves Restoration Project. Our collection bucket was also sent around the hall which raised a further £58.75. We'd like to once again thank the members of the Lodge and guests for this wonderful gesture. Every penny will go to restoring the final resting places of those men who built our Club and will enable us to continue our work on the project. Thank you.

This event will be in aid of the Fernando Ricksen Charity. It will be an honour for us to present the Founders Story at Coopers Bar Wishaw on Friday 18th November at 7.30pm.Following the presentation there will be a Q&A session. Entry is £5. DJ Patey will provide the post presentation entertainment. We hope to see a few of you there.