The Peter Campbell Memorial Plaque Vandalised.

[Bill 13,717]

Many thanks to those who have donated this morning, it really is much appreciated.

 

If you'd like to assist the Project please use the link here on our website.

 

https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/t...rangers-graves

I can't get that link to work.

[jhunter 0]

I can't get that link to work.

 

https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/the-restoration-of-rangers-graves

 

i think that might be the right link to the page

[the gunslinger 3,366]

Celt fans are the worst in world football.

 

 

[pete 2,499]

Rangers heritage group slam "pathetic" vandals after monument is trashed

Caroline Wilson @WilsonC75HT Senior Reporter

Rangers heritage group slam

 

Rangers heritage group slam "pathetic" vandals after monument is trashed

 

A MONUMENT dedicated to one of the founder fathers of Rangers has been targeted by vandals.

 

The tribute to Peter Campbell was unveiled three weeks ago in Penarth, Wales where the Scot set sail on a voyage to India.

 

Born in the late 1850s in Rhu in Argyll, Campbell was one of the four founding members and made 24 Scottish Cup appearances for the club.

 

The 25-year-old was on board the St Columba with a cargo of coal bound for India when the ship was hit by a storm. He drowned in the Bay of Biscay in France in March 1883.

 

Russell Calderwood of the Cardiff Rangers Supports Club said he intended to speak to Penarth Council about having a perspex cover fitted to protect the memorial.

 

A spokesman for Rangers heritage group The Founders Trail said: "To the scumbag who went out of his way, in a quiet corner of Wales, and attempted to erase the name of our Founder Peter Campbell and that of Rangers Football Club from the inscription.

 

"Did you even for a second consider that this memorial is a dedication not only to Peter Campbell but to every soul who perished when the St Columba went down?

 

"No, your brain capacity obviously couldn’t stretch there. Let me assure you now that your pathetic efforts were futile."

 

"Our restoration work will continue with greater pace than ever before.

 

"We will continue to place these memorials , re-erect and repair those fallen and forever celebrate the names of those who made our club the world’s most successful."

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15463416.Rangers_heritage_group_slam__pathetic__vandals_after_monument_is_trashed/?ref=mrb&lp=13

 

I am not sure if Moonlighter placed this but the Evening Times have picked it up.

[Gonzo79 15,293]

Hello, new member but a regular reader of the forum. I am hugely supportive of the Founders Trail and all their excellent work and successfully urged my Supporters Club to make a contribution at the tail end of last season.

 

This is hugely disappointing but rise above it and assist the relevant parties in restoring the memorial to it's original state. Only a complete loser would vandalise a memorial to a person who is no longer with us.

[The Moonlighter 387]

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/15463416.Rangers_heritage_group_slam__pathetic__vandals_after_monument_is_trashed/?ref=mrb&lp=13

 

I am not sure if Moonlighter placed this but the Evening Times have picked it up.

 

The Evening Times have always been good with us.

 

They rang and asked if it was ok to lift the story from our website.

[compo 7,038]

Ignorant. People everywhere