Wigan Album

The ancestral home of Captain Banks, who presented me with The Cross-Country Trophy for Gold House, who won it in May 1969, at Highfield Boys' school. I won the senior race in 1968 and 1969.
Very happy days indeed.

Wasn't the hall in fact the ancestral home of Captain Bankes's wife? I seem to remember being told he took the family name on marrying her.

George Hildyard Bankes became
Sheriff of Lancashire in 1921. Upon
his death, their daughter Joyce
Helena Murray Bankes inherited the
property. Joyce married Captain
Edward William Jervis Bankes R.N.
at Billinge St Aidan’s Church on 23
April 1929. [Past Forward No.40]

This has been copied from Billinge History Society's notes: Anne Bankes of Winstanley, who married Hugh Holme of Holland House in 1731, was the sole heiress of her father, brothers and nephew. Her eldest son, Thomas Holme, was
William Bankes’ cousin and he inherited the Winstanley estate on the latter’s death in 1800. There was an attempt by the Isle of Man branch of the Bankes family to lay claim
to the estate upon William Bankes’ death, but this claim came to nothing. Thomas Holme died in 1803 and was succeeded by his son Meyrick, who, under the terms of William Bankes’ will, changed his name to Bankes and took up the Bankes’family Coat of Arms. The UpHolland and Orrell Collieries of the Holme family, and those at Winstanley belonging to the Bankes family, all came under the ownership of the one family. This made the Bankes family one of the largest landowners in the area. http://sthelens-connect.net/sitefiles/billinge-history.pdf