TheMoonlighter

That is a stunning photograph and thanks for sharing.

The photographs showing Ibrox Terrace then and today are wonderful.

We've managed to locate a few new photographs of 1st Ibrox. All in here. http://blog.thegalla...co.uk/wp/?p=692

The much sought after Gallant Pioneers 1872 book by Gary Ralston has had a re-print and is available now in paperback. Fill you boots folks. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gallant-Pion...llant+Pioneers

We're needing a wee repair job done on the Founders Plaque at Fleshers Haugh, nothing major. It's brass and sits on a wooden plinth.The heat inside the Football Centre has bevelled it . It needs re-mounted. It happened before, but the guy who manufactured it for us and repaired it wasn't very good to deal with at all.Nice wee job for a Bear . Here she is. If anyone can help please send an email to : thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com

Tomorrow's Tour is going to include a very special event. A report and photographs will be posted on here over the weekend. For those booked on the Tour, it's going to be a wet one folks so please dress accordingly. We'll have our Founders Trail welcome desk within the Ibrox Megastore from 11am. The Tour will depart from outside of the store at 12pm. I've submitted a batch of Tour dates to Rangers this morning for the late summer and autumn. As soon as these are passed we'll post the dates and start taking bookings.

I did indeed and thank you. I'll chat to my colleague today about this event.

The story is on the front page of the Evening Times and on an inside column of The Record.

Thank you to Andrew Dickson at Rangers Media who has sent the organisers a lengthy email in support of the Founders project highlighting what we're trying to promote.

The Evening Times just rang and are going to run with the story.

Yes, thank you.

It wouldn't happen in any other football city in the world and that is extremely sad.

This years festival is on Sunday 2nd June. I told them that we advertise on supporters websites that have tens of thousands of members. I asked '' what do i go back and tell them now ?, the Founders Trail has been banned because..................what '' ? All i got back was a blank expression. http://gibsonstgala.co.uk/

Over the last four years since the Founders Trail took to the streets promoting our incredible story and celebrating the kids who formed our wonderful Club, it was always our intention to take it out into the mainstream of Scottish life. It's a wonderful Scottish story and why shouldn't it be part of cultural festivals ? We secured a listing on the Visit Scotland website and have our Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour leaflets on display within the Tourist office in Glasgow. Back in 1871 when our Founders, who were mere teenagers , arrived in Glasgow they settled in the west end of the city where the McNeil's in particular stayed for many years. With this in mind we applied for and secured a stall at the popular West End Festival in 2011. It proved to be a huge success where we raised a fair amount of cash for both Yorkhill and Erskine Hospitals. In an effort to broaden our scope we took a stall at last years smaller but still popular Gibson Street Festival , the link being that Peter McNeil, brother of Moses and his family stayed for a few years at 32 Gibson Street. It was a huge success again. To enable us to again secure a stall at this years Gibson Street Festival we applied for a stall in January. Two weeks ago i got an email back from the stalls coordinator stating '' Unfortunately we can't offer the Founders Trail a stall this year due to the controversy your stall caused last year''. I immediately suggested that we meet. This meeting took place last week in a west end cafe where i asked for a full explanation. They had received two phone calls and two emails. I asked for the worst of it.One email had said '' The Gibson Street event is a folk and community festival and it shouldn't be aligning itself with a bigoted organisation'' We spoke at length about how we're promoting a wonderful Glasgow story of kids who came into the city from rural Scotland to find employment but gave birth to one of the world's greatest sporting institutions. I stressed that he as organiser was doing nothing more than bending to bigots. That he wasn't taking into consideration the many people who'd stopped at our stall and had complimented us on what we were there promoting. I stated that our project will move on and the only people who would lose out from his decision were the kids at Yorkhill and the residents of Erskine Hospital. It held no sway. We set out four years ago to show that our Club's story is indeed unique and it's been hugely successful . Glasgow and this country will forever live in the past as long as we have people such as those at the Gibson Street Festival who are willing to do the bigots work for them.

Due to a cycle race within Glasgow city centre on Sunday 23rd June that will lead to '' extensive road closures'' the advertised Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour for that date will now operate on Saturday 22nd June. All who have reserved seats have been notified and we apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause. Seats are still available and can be reserved by sending us an email to : thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com

If we take these idiots into consideration we'd get nothing done mate.

Sandy Jardine was working on this before his illness. It's maybe wise if we let that one rest for the moment.

Peter McNeil. http://www.thegallantpioneers.co.uk/Peter-McNeil.html

The Founders Trail which tours Glasgow telling the story of our Founders has since it’s inception in 2009 taken over 2,000 people on our journey of discovery which culminates in a guided tour of Ibrox Stadium. Details of our research, the Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour can be found at : http://www.thegallantpioneers.co.uk/ The final location that we visit during the tour is Craigton Cemetery which is situated just over a mile from Ibrox Stadium. Buried there is Rangers greatest manager Mr William Struth . Laid to rest in the same area are Founder of Rangers Peter McNeil , his parents John and Jane and bothers William and James . These graves are unmarked and were located only after extensive research. Over the last four years when visiting this site the feed-back from Rangers supporters has ranged from ‘’ this is a disgrace, surely the club should do something about this ‘’ to ‘’ Can you urge the Club to have memorials placed there’’ ? This is a project that we’ve been keen to address but with the Club being where it was over the last couple of year the time just never seemed correct. We at the Founders Trail feel that there is now an element of stability around the Club and with our club history being celebrated now more than ever that the time is now indeed correct to honour these gentlemen. Peter McNeil, brother of Moses, was only 17 back in 1872 when he and his friends formed Rangers Football Club. He was a trusted committee member, and a wise administrator during the Club's turbulent early years . Research into our Founders has managed to locate Peter McNeil’s Grand-Daughters who attended our Founders dinner at Ibrox in 2009 and the Grand-Daughter of Peter’s brother James who is buried in the adjoining plot. We have the full approval of both families on this project who have been kept up to date on developments. Through Glasgow City Council and research at the Mitchell Library, we’ve established that James McNeil’s Grand-Daughter Mrs. Elizabeth Pirie, who was a guest of the Club at Ibrox in December 2012 at our 140th celebration day, is the legal owner of both plots. She has been involved in the project from the outset as the lairs have been passed down to her from the original owner and her Grand-Father James McNeil. Mrs. Pirie is the oldest living relative and is now in possession of the title deeds. Mrs.Pirie. http://blog.thegalla...co.uk/wp/?p=573 We at the Founders Trail have felt strongly for some time that the incredible contribution made by the McNeil brothers in first forming Rangers Football Club and guiding it through our turbulent early years should be recognized by the Club by way of the restoration and the placing of memorial stones at these plots at Craigton Cemetery. Three weeks ago we completed our research and handed a lengthy document into the Club for approval. Jim Hannah very kindly took our project on and met with Charles Green. On Monday of this week we were told to go ahead with the project and order the stones which was done yesterday, 3rd April 2013. Charles Green's words were '' The Club is delighted to back this project . Once the stones are in place i'll take the Founders Trail and pay my respects to these gentlemen''. It will be a period of 6 weeks from the time of ordering the stones to them being placed at Craigton Cemetery. All updates will be posted on these pages between now and when the memorials are put in place to honour our Founder and his family.

A big thanks to everyone who supported the trip yesterday up into Founders country. It's your story and we're grateful for the opporunity to share it . Tom Vallance's Grave. Bendarroch Park. Moses Grave. Moses

Final call for anyone wishing to join us on Sunday's Tour to Rosneath ! thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com

Upon arriving at Ibrox Stadium would everyone who's booked on the Trail please make your through the front door and into the Reception area to the right as we'll be there with our Tour check in desk.

Remember folks that the clocks jump forward by one hour on Sunday morning. Last 3 seats for this Tour still available. Just drop us an email to : thegallantpioneeers@googlemail.com

Four seats for this tour of Rosneath have just become available folks. Just drop us an email. thegallantpioneers@googlemail.com Long range weather forecast is for sunshine and 27 degrees, don't blame me if you miss out.

This coach is now full. Thanks so much to all who've purchased tickets for our first ever Trail into Founders country .