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Supercaligragilisticeexpialidocious. The Orrell Red<br />

Triangle Cricket Club is thriving with five senior teams<br />

playing in the Liverpool and District Cricket leagues,<br />

the popular junior section has ten teams across six age<br />

groups and the club also runs a ECB-sponsored All Stars<br />

section for children between 5-8 years.<br />

And last, but not least is the Orrell YMCA Crown Green<br />

Bowling Club. This is open seven days a week from 10am<br />

to 8pm during the bowling season. New members are<br />

always welcome to join the club at a annual cost of £25<br />

subscription. For details, contact Brian Atherton on 01695<br />

622138 or Harold Preston on 01942 519042.<br />

One hundred years on, the original Orrell Hub can no<br />

longer claim to have the scale of different activities that<br />

it used to, but it’s still the base of Orrell’s strongest cricket<br />

set-up, the main centre for crown green bowls and hosts<br />

the village’s biggest social events of the year – Orrell<br />

Proms and the annual bonfire.<br />

The Earl of Derby laying foundation stone in 1993<br />

G.H. Bankes<br />

George Hildyard<br />

Bankes inherited<br />

the Winstanley Park<br />

estate in 1907, from<br />

his mother Eleanor.<br />

His grandfather and<br />

great-grandfather,<br />

both named Meyrick<br />

Bankes, had built up<br />

the family’s finances<br />

by investing in the<br />

area’s coal industry<br />

and owned numerous<br />

coal mines in the<br />

<strong>Wigan</strong> area.<br />

G.H. Bankes pictured outside Winstanley Hall -<br />

© <strong>Wigan</strong> & Leigh Archives<br />

Both George and his<br />

wife Amy became<br />

local magistrates and<br />

George became the Sheriff of Lancaster in 1921. Both<br />

were heavily involved with local community groups, and<br />

organised and hosted fund-raising events for charities.<br />

George donated land to enable the original YMCA<br />

building to be erected and sat as the President of the<br />

Orrell and District Red Triangle Club. He died in 1949.<br />

<strong>Local</strong> <strong>Life</strong> would like to thank David Unsworth for his assistance and most of the images.

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