Were Rangers shares sold in the Rowantree pub in Dundee?
That is the basis of the latest offering to BwB from regular contributor Andy Walker.
He said: “I was wandering through the streets of Camperdown when I found myself passing the Rowantree Bar — an old haunt of mine.
“It is now a dental practice.
“I had a wee giggle to myself when I remembered when you got your teeth ‘altered’ for free in there.
“Anyway, I walked down to the corner of Pitalpin Street where the old piggery used to be.
“Then I remembered . . .
“It was the Monday of the second week of the ‘Dundee Fortnight’ in 1969.
“I was on my own as my friends were still in Blackpool.
“When I walked into the Rowantree Bar, a friend of mine Jimmy Blackwood was standing at the bar.
“John Houston, the bar manager, said ‘Hello, Andy’ but he had a smirk on his face, and so did his chief barman Brian ‘Smudger’ Smith.
“I asked why the smug looks, and the three of them motioned to me to look to my right.
“I did, and sitting there was Andy McConnachie Sn, who had the cement works in Pitalpin Street behind the White Rose chip shop.
“Sitting next to him was a gentleman, who was dapperly dressed in bowler hat, three-piece suit and fabulous brogues on his feet.
“It took me a few seconds to recognise the man and I could not believe who it was.”
Revealing who it was, Andy continued: “He was ‘Peem’ McLeish, who owned the piggery on Pitalpin Street.
“Peem held thousands of Rangers shares.
“He never ever missed an AGM but he had missed this one because of gout.
“Peem was in the bar as he was meeting, as John the manager described, a ‘God’!
“Just on 2pm, a black Bentley drew up outside the pub.
“John went to open the lounge for them to conduct their business.
“Out of the back seat and up the stairs appeared Scot Symon, legendary manager of Rangers FC.
“Peem was escorted into the lounge by Andy McConnachie.
“The meeting lasted approximately 15 minutes.
“Symon was through to try to buy Peem’s shares.
“We never found out if he actually sold any to Symon. In later years, when he passed away, rumour had it that his shares went to his sister.”
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