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Extracts from Orrell club history.

During these first seasons Orrell played its home games on quite a few
different pitches including the afore mentioned Lamberhead School field, the Donkey Field off Moss Rd, and just off Orrell Rd at the Mount. Also used at various times were the fields behind the Abbey Lakes Hotel and at Alma Hill Up Holland, where the Old Dog Inn was used to change in. However in 1937 the club obtained the lease of a ground and hut in Winstanley Rd Orrell as tenants of Orrell YMCA at a rental of four pound per annum. Orrell played here until in 1949 land was purchased off the Glover family of Edgewood Hall Farm, and Orrells long association with Edge Hall Road began.

Professional rugby followed, but this resulted in the Club being put into
Administration and Edge Hall Road being sold to Developers, who leased only the First Team pitch and the Club House back to the Club, before Dave Whelan and his JJB empire purchased the lease and invested heavily in the team.
When he pulled out after three years, Orrell was always going to struggle to pay players. Three of the four pitches at Edge Hall Rd have now been built on and the clubhouse and 1st team pitch is the training base for Wigan Warriors RLFC.

Sadly in 2007 Orrell said goodbye to Edge Hall Rd, and is now playing at
John Rigby College as amateurs, while we search for some land in the Orrell area to lease or buy.

Read the full history here,

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