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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.