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2 hours ago, My Fathers Scarf said:
Your work is fabulous and must bring great pride to the families. Donation made.
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On Saturday 12th June the Wifflet Loyal,Gartsherrie Loyal and John Stevenson Rangers Supporters Club in a fantastic effort to raise funds for the Restoration Project,cycled from Markinch in Fife to Ibrox Stadium and raised the absolutely incredible amount of £5,362.
We’d like to sincerely thank everyone who took part,in particular Davie Campbell for all his hard work and of course YOU for the donations which came in to support the guys…including a donation from Rangers captain James Tavenier!
We have many restorations to attend to over the coming weeks in particular at Cathcart Cemetery in Glasgow, your overwhelming generosity will ensure that our work continues with pace.
Thank you.
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On 06/06/2021 at 20:10, MorelosRangers said:
Hi mate,
When will the FT trips be taking place for those have previously booked tickets? Is there a rough timeline for dates?
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Apologies for not seeing this sooner mate.
We're just waiting on the club getting back to us with permitted numbers to go around the stadium then we'll decide the first batch of dates with them.
All Gift Vouchers and tickets booked will of course be valid.
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We will be back soon!
*All Gift Vouchers purchased are without limit of time*
The Gift Voucher reserves a seat on our luxury Parks of Hamilton coach and are valid for any Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour of your choice (allowing for availability).
As we celebrate 55 join us on a journey of discovery back to 1872 when Rangers was just the dream of a group of young kids who gathered on Fleshers Haugh.They had no money,ball or football kit and used a bush on the Glasgow Green as a changing room.
The Founders Trail will take you to the very place that our wonderful story began.
Adults £30
Senior Bluenoses( 65 and over) and Wee Bears ( under 16) £20
+£1 P+P per order
Gift Vouchers,which can be purchased here on our website,are posted out by ourselves within 24 hours.
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/shop
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Now that restrictions have been lifted we’ll be delighted to bring the hugely popular Founders Roadshow to your Pub or Club.
As we celebrate our 55th Title hear the incredible story of how it all began.
We at the Founders Trail are aware that due to time constraint, distance and cost many supporters can't make the journey to Glasgow to join us on the Founders Trail so back in 2014 we launched the Founders Trail Roadshow which is an alternative format which lets us take our wonderful story out to you.
The Founders Trail Roadshow tells the story of our Founders from the shores of the Gareloch, to their arrival in Glasgow and their journey to the front door of Ibrox Stadium This is done by way of a slideshow presentation. We profile each of our Founders and the subsequent growth of our unique club into a worldwide sporting institution.
The presentation also provides an insight into the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project and of course the Founders Trail. We hope that by telling this story it will give everyone an understanding of the very foundations upon which those lads built our club.
Over the last few years our Founders Trail Roadshow has visited places such as Belfast, Londonderry,Plymouth,Blackpool,Campbletown,Fraserburgh,Thringstone and Aberdeen.
The presentation lasts for approximately 90 mins,with a 20 minute interval we also encourage a Q&A session at the conclusion.
The roadshow can be booked to coincide with other entertainment you may wish to provide for those attending.
We have all of our own equipment,all we need from you is a plug point and an audience.
If you would like to discuss us bringing the Founders Trail Roadshow to your supporters club, lodge or organisation then please email us at thefounderstrail
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Today two members of the Calderwood RSC laid a wreath and paid their respects on behalf of their club at the recently restored final resting place of David Hill,Rangers Football Club 1875-1884.
Remembered Always.
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A couple of years ago we located the final resting place of Rangers player David Hill in an East Kilbride cemetery. Restoration work has now been carried out and a memorial plaque placed at the base.
David Hill was born in 1858 in Perth. He joined Rangers in 1875 and played with the Club until 1884. He’s pictured here with his Rangers team mates in that iconic photograph from 1877.
David went on to become a Scottish Internationalist and gave the club many years of service.
David was employed as a Turkey Red salesman and lived at 17 Main Street East Kilbride.His house was above the two shops pictured that he owned.
David Hill married a Jane Isobel Campbell Storer on the 2nd June 1904. He died on 3rd February 1920 at 4 Ann Street Glasgow aged 61.
David saw Rangers grow from that fledging club born in a Glasgow park into Ibrox and huge attendances.
As we continue to celebrate our 55th Title we remember David Hill.
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We will be back soon!
*All Gift Vouchers purchased are without limit of time*
The Gift Voucher reserves a seat on our luxury Parks of Hamilton coach and are valid for any Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour of your choice (allowing for availability).
As we celebrate 55 join us on a journey of discovery back to 1872 when Rangers was just the dream of a group of young kids who gathered on Fleshers Haugh.They had no money,ball or football kit and used a bush on the Glasgow Green as a changing room.
The Founders Trail will take you to the very place that our wonderful story began.
Adults £30
Senior Bluenoses( 65 and over) and Wee Bears ( under 16) £20
+£1 P+P per order
Gift Vouchers,which can be purchased here on our website,are posted out by ourselves within 24 hours.
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We’d like to sincerely thank Billy Bittles and Walter” Hammy” Hamilton who have donated the incredible amount of £1690 to the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project,this is an incredible gesture,thank you so much lads.
These guys do a lot of hard work for charities and on this occasion chose to donate to the Restoration Project,we’re overwhelmed.
We have many restorations to attend to over the coming weeks and this will ensure that our work continues with pace.
Thank you.
If you’d like to donate to the Restoration Project please do so using this link.
https://www.paypal.com/sendmoney
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***Follow the link and add following email address along with donation – sonsofstruth@aol.co.uk
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‘’Thus ended their first match played at the latter end of May 1872 some two months after the inauguration of the club’’.
The words of Rangers player William Dunlop from his article The Rangers FC which he wrote so eloquently for the SFA Annual in 1881 using the pen name ‘True Blue’.
Rangers Football Club played it’s first ever match 149 years ago this week.
Our Club was formed on a spare bit of ground at Fleshers Haugh by a few kids who’d come to Glasgow seeking employment and a better way of life.Their Club ,which they formed for no other reason than the love of football and the pursuit of sporting excellence,would go on to become the world’s most successful.
That first ever match was against Callander and ended 0-0, Willie continued,“Their first game was a terrible spectacle with the ball suffering an incredible amount of abuse” William McBeath was given man of the match and then spent a week in bed recovering due to his exertions’’
Founder William McBeath was from Callander and we believe it would have been Willie who approached ex-pats from the town who had settled in Glasgow and that’s probably where the opposition came from for our first match.
Willie’s Rangers team-mate Sam Ricketts wrote in 1884 about the boys playing those first few games in their civvies,journalist John Allan wrote about them having to change behind a bush as there were no facilities.
William Dunlop described how genial Peter McNeil would travel on a Saturday morning to a desirable part of the Glasgow Green, set up the noted standards and stand guard until the classic hour came when he would be joined by his friends.We felt this was a very dramatic and moving image and commissioned a painting to be done depicting this scene.We presented the painting by artist Helen Runciman to the Club in 2009 and it now hangs on the marble staircase at Ibrox.
The Rangers would remain at Fleshers Haugh for three years.We then began our journey around Glasgow to Burnbank and Kinning Park before finally settling in the Ibrox area in 1887 where we would grow to become the world’s most successful football club.
The Rangers FC by William Dunlop.
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/the-Rangers-f-c-by-true-blue
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Founder Peter Campbell was born at Garelochhead on the 6th March 1857.
Peter came from a more privileged background than his fellow Pioneers.
His father John was a harbour master, his mother Mary was sister of Sir James Jenkins, honorary surgeon to Queen Victoria. The family home was “Craigellan”, a large sandstone villa in the lochside village of Garelochhead.
A life on the ocean wave was always seemingly inevitable for the youngest of our founders given the sea-faring family to which he belonged but it was the ocean wave that tragically claimed his life at the age of 25.
In the early 1870’s Peter moved to Glasgow and joined the Barclay Curle shipyard as an apprentice.
When he and his friends Peter and Moses McNeil and William McBeath struck upon the idea of forming a football club it was no doubt a welcome release from the Clyde-side for Peter.
He served a five-year apprenticeship with Barclay Curle and a further two years as a journeyman until 1879 while playing for the newly-formed Rangers.
He was one of the better players in the fledgling side. Indeed he was described in annuals of the time as one of most outstanding players of the period.
Like his fellow founders, Campbell played in that first match in May 1872 and went on to become a pivotal player for Rangers.
Campbell, who was vice-captain of Rangers, played for Glasgow against Sheffield in 1876 when he and Moses became the first Rangers players to gain representative honours.He scored five goals in the 1876/77 Cup campaign when Rangers made it all the way to their first final but as previously described they agonisingly lost 3-2 in a second replay to Vale of Leven.
His last match for Rangers was a Scottish Cup tie against the dominant Queen’s Park which was lost 5-1 in September 1879 and then he became one of the first Scottish players to move to England when he joined Blackburn Rovers and played for them briefly before hanging up his boots.
The smell of the salt was too strong in his nostrils. He is said to have had seven spells at sea with the London-based merchant ship Margaret Banks in the next three years and then, fatefully, he was on board the St Columba which was bound for Bombay with coal when it left Penarth in South Wales in January 1883.In horrific weather the boat never got past the Bay of Biscay off western France and Peter was pronounced drowned on March 3.The youngest of our founders died aged just 25.On Saturday 22nd July 2017, after a period of negotiation with Penarth Council, we unveiled a memorial plaque at Penarth Pier to commemorate the life of Peter Campbell and his contribution in the formation of Rangers Football Club.The memorial was funded by our Restoration of Rangers Graves Project.
We’re fortunate to have something more tangible to remember Peter Campbell by.He was a member of the first Rangers’ side to win a trophy, the Glasgow Merchants’ Charity Cup in 1879,and there’s an incredible story behind the medal that Peter won that day.
Fellow Rangers supporter William Mason contacted us to tell of how one of his friends had found this medal belonging to Peter Campbell in a park in East Kilbride in 1968. A few years ago his friend loaned the medal to Rangers and Peter Campbell’s medal is on display in the Blue Room at Ibrox.
This is a permanent reminder of the contribution Peter Campbell made in forming our great Club.
Today as we charge towards our 55th League title we remember Founder Peter Campbell.
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The Founders plaque at Fleshers Haugh was unveiled on the 6th September 2009.
The image we were keen to portray was the boys stepping from the river and on to the football field with a ball for the first time.
We went with that idea to sculptor Andy Scott who kindly etched the idea on to paper for us. Andy previous work was the John Greig Statue outside Ibrox Stadium, Mr.Struth’s bust within the Stadium. More recently The Kelpies at Falkirk.
This then let us go to a local plaque manufacturer for a costing, we then put out an appeal for the necessary funds to the worldwide Rangers support, the cost was met within days.
On Sunday 6th September 2009 the Founders plaque was unveiled by Heather Lang, the Grand-daughter of our Founder Peter McNeil. We were also honoured to have with us on the day the late great Sandy Jardine.
The football centre at Fleshers Haugh is used by kids almost every day of the week, if the Founders plaque acts as inspiration to even just one then it’s job done because essentially that’s what it was, a group of kids on a bit of spare ground formed their own football team, their boys club went on to become the world’s most successful.
The Plaque inscription reads:
In the spring of 1872 four young boys, Moses McNeil, Peter McNeil, Peter Campbell and William McBeath left their rowing boat on the nearby River Clyde and upon these fields formed a football team.
That team was to become Rangers Football Club.
It was their determination to succeed that led to Rangers becoming one of the world’s most famous clubs.
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Our remaining tour dates and seats available for 2019 are as follows.
SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER SOLD OUT
SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER
SATURDAY 26TH OCTOBER
SUNDAY 3RD NOVEMBER
SATURDAY 30TH NOVEMBER
Prices are as follows.
Adults £28
Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £19
Group discounts are available upon request.
Reserve your seat here on our website https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/
Gift Vouchers are also available here https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/shop
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It will be an honour for us to present the Founders Story at the Trinity Bar Hawick on Saturday 7th September at 7.30.
Ticket are priced at £12 (under 16’s free ) and will include a buffet, these can be purchased from ewanlawrence@tiscali.co.uk
The Founders presentation will also provide an insight into The Restoration of Rangers Graves Project and The Founders Trail.
We hope to see a few of you along.
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It will be an honour for us to present the Founders Story at the Chapleton Inn on Friday 27th September at 7.30pm.
The pub is situated at 18 Shawton Road Chapleton ML10 6RY
Tickets which are only £5 include a half-time pie and are available from behind the bar or can be reserved by calling 07853 290568
The evening will also provide an insight into The Rangers Graves Restoration Project and The Founders Trail.
We hope to see a few of you along.
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It will be an honour for us to present the Founders Story for the Newton Stewart Rangers Supporters Club at the Cree Inn on Friday 11th October at 8.00pm.
The pub is situated at Creebridge Newton Stewart DG8 6NP
Tickets are only £10 for adults and £5 for kids. 07796 012673
The evening will also provide an insight into The Rangers Graves Restoration Project and The Founders Trail.
We hope to see a few of you along.
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It will be an honour for us to present the Founders Story at the Beancross and Newlands Community Hall Montgomery Street Grangemouth on Friday 25th October at 7.30pm as a fundraiser for LLOL 259.
The presentation will also provide an insight into The Restoration of Rangers Graves Project and The Founders Trail.
A cultural disco will be held after the presentation. Bar open until 12pm. Waitress service available.
Tickets which are £5 can be purchased from any member of LLOL 259 or just pay at the door on the night.
We hope to see a few of you along.
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A few years ago in Lambhill Cemetery in Glasgow we managed to locate the final resting place of Rangers President George Goudie, unfortunately the stone marking the plot was off it’s plinth.Subsequently our team re-erected the stone and blast cleaned it.
As a token of our gratitude, thanks and respect we at the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project thought that it would be fitting to mark Mr Goudies plot with a plaque, this was put in place last week.
This is today’s generation of Rangers supporters saying thank you to Mr George Goudie.
President 1882 – 1883 - Vice President 1883 – 1885.
George Goudie was a Paisley “Buddie”, born at 2, Hamilton Street in the town on 9 April, 1859 to Humphrey, an engine-fitter (although later records would state he was a marine engineer), and his wife Anne.
It would appear young George spent his formative years overseas. There is no trace of the family in the census of 1861 or in that of 1871. They do appear in the 1881 census. By then the family home was at 14 Union Street in Leith. The census records twenty-one year-old George had three siblings. Eighteen year-old Matthew and sixteen year-old William had been born in Greece. The youngest of the four sons, fourteen year-old Henry, had been born in Turkey. George’s occupation was given as “clerk”.
Research has, as yet, failed to reveal how the young clerk from Leith became, within a year, vice-president of Rangers Football Club! Goudie’s first appearance in the Glasgow PO directory was not until 1886/87. We do know, though, that he was an accomplished athlete, being successful at distances ranging from 100 yards to 880 yards. It is not an unfair assumption that George became friends with Tom Vallace on the athletics circuit and he was brought into the Rangers’ circle through Tom.
When Archie Harkness died so tragically young in November, 1882, Vice-president George Goudie assumed the presidency of the club. These were not good times for the Rangers. There had been no attempt to build up the club membership. The club was in such financial straits, the committee approached President Goudie requesting he provide a loan of £30 (just under £3,000 in today’s terms). This he did. Would Rangers Football Club have survived if Goudie had not agreed to provide the loan? We have to assume that without it, the end may have been nigh. By the summer of 1883, the club was £100 in debt. George served just a matter of months as president. He stood down at the annual general meeting in May, 1883, held at the Athole Hotel. Tom Vallance became president. George served as his vice-president for the next two years.
The fact the committee felt they could approach George Goudie for a loan would suggest he had already established his business as a produce merchant with some success. George married Jane Currie on 14 April, 1887 at her family home at 20 Kelvingrove Street. George had been living at 89 Grant Street, a short distance from Rangers’ old Burnbank ground. The first marital home would appear to have been at Sandyford Street. By 1891, the family, now augmented by George, Jnr had moved to 20 Kelvingrove Street. George had had offices in Waterloo Street and York Street. Such was the success of his business, the family could afford to employ a domestic servant.
By the time of the 1901 census, George, Jnr had been joined by sister Jane and brothers Alexander and James. Five years later, the Goudies had moved to Pollokshields, the family home being “Dunard” at 14 Leslie Street. George had retained his sporting competitive spirit, turning his hand to bowls. He had been a member of the St Vincent Club, then, on moving south of the river, Titwood Bowling Club. His final business address was in Howard Street.
George suffered from heart disease for the last eighteen months or so of his life. He died, aged only fifty-one, on 24 February, 1911. His funeral took place at the Western Necropolis, attended by his “wide circle of friends”. The funeral directors were James Henderson and Co. Yes, the same James Henderson who, too, became president of Rangers and at the time of George’s death, was chairman of Rangers Football Club Limited. We do not have a great record of George Goudie’s time on the Rangers committee.That one act, however, the granting of a loan of £30, will ensure his place in our history will live for ever.
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Please note that this is an International weekend.
If you’d like to join us for this special event please purchase your tickets using the link below.
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We still have a few seats left for tomorrow's Tour.
Adults £28 Child/Concession £19.
We depart Ibrox at 12pm.
If you’d like to join us please reserve your seat here on our website
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/
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A limited number of seats have become available on this Saturday’s Founders Trail and Ibrox Stadium Tour.
Adults £28 Child/Concession £19.
We depart Ibrox at 12pm.
If you’d like to join us please reserve your seat here on our website
https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/
Further information 0790 2855536.
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Tickets which are priced at only £5 can be purchased from the pub. 01236 727415
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Seats still available on a number of Tours over the coming weeks.
Adults £28
Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £19
Group discounts are available upon request.
Reserve your seat here on our website https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/
Gift Vouchers are also available here https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/shop
For further information phone: 0790 2855536.
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Our Tour dates and seats available for July,August and September are as follows.
More dates will be added throughout the year.
SATURDAY 20TH JULY. SOLD OUT
SUNDAY 27TH JULY. SOLD OUT
SATURDAY 1OTH AUGUST
SATURDAY 17TH AUGUST
SATURDAY 24TH AUGUST
SUNDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER
SUNDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER
Prices are as follows.
Adults £28
Children (under 16) and Senior Citizens £19
Group discounts are available upon request.
Reserve your seat here on our website https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/
Gift Vouchers are also available here https://www.thefounderstrail.co.uk/shop
For further information phone: 0790 2855536.
£5 Raffle for Two Rangers Books. All Proceeds to the Restoration of Rangers Graves Project.
in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom
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Born Under a Union Flag
Follow We Will.
These books have been very kindly donated by a fellow Bear and we thank him for his generosity.
To be in with a chance of winning the books just donate £5 to the Restoration of Graves Project via this link.
PAYPAL LINK. - https://www.paypal.com/sendmoney
***Follow the link and add following email address along with donation – sonsofstruth@aol.co.uk
The winning name will be drawn on Wednesday 30th June.
Good luck everyone.