We are drinking in Oswestry tonight and the amount of goodwill regarding our fans is brilliant All the pubs have said how well behaved the fans were this afternoon Following the chorley feedback one landlord is sending a email to the club praising the fans Well done tarn
My grandad did his army training there….Park Hall Camp Leading up to the First World War the owner of the Park Hall estate was Major Wynne Corrie. In 1915 he gave Park Hall over to the military to use as their local headquarters, and in the spring of that year a military camp was constructed to train the troops. This spilled out onto the Oldport Farm site, with the area to the east of Old Oswestry Hillfort being used for excavating trenches and setting off explosives. In July 1915, the first 4,000 troops of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers and the Cheshire regiment arrived at the Hall. They disembarked at Whittington Station and marched to the camp with the Fusilier's goat mascot taking the lead. Initially 14,000 troops were stationed there, which had risen to 21,000 troops within a fortnight. As well as training on the Park Hall site the soldiers also trained on the Old Oswestry iron age hill fort close by. Its ancient ramparts proved perfect training grounds for the troops. A railway halt was built at the camp to make it easier for the soldiers to arrive for training and to depart for leave or to go to war.
