During the early 1960s, the Wigan Music Society would hold concerts at the hall of the grammar school and also at the Thomas Linacre School Hall, which is the building in question. In their heyday, these schools were across the way from each other and formed a merger in 1963, just ten years into the existence of Thomas Linacre. In recent years, the Thomas Linacre School was taken over by Wigan and Leigh College, with the grammar school transformed into an NHS outpatients centre, named after Thomas Linacre, the founder and first President of the Royal College of Physicians and royal physician to Henry VIII, who spent five years as Rector of Wigan Parish before his death in 1524.
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