The first bicycle racing at Park Hall was on August Bank Holiday 1888 at a fete to raise funds for the restoration of Castle Bank. There was a cricket match, a tennis tournament, a football match and sports. The first bicycle event was a one mile handicap, which was won easily by WH Ravenscroft of Liverpool, his prize was an egg stand, value three guineas. The second bicycle race was over five miles, which Ravenscroft also won. There were the usual military games, tent pegging, splitting the lemon and a tug-of-war. Music was provided by the Shropshire Light Infantry Band and there was a dance in the evening under gas light. The event raised £100 8s 10d.
The 1894 August Bank Holiday event was an athletic and military fete, the bicycle races were one and two miles open handicap races and a one mile handicap race confined to members of Oswestry Cycling Club. The 1895 fete was held to raise money to reduce the debt of Trinity Church and the event was so successful, it was decided to make the fete an annual event.
There was a Grand Fete and Athletic Festival on Whit Monday 1896, the attendance was over 5,000. The grass track was described as "in the pink of condition, as firm as possible and as smooth as a bowling green, and was the subject of general admiration." There were four running races and three bicycle races, a local one mile handicap and one and two miles open handicaps. In the evening the grounds were illuminated, there was dancing in a large marquee to Mr Tims' string band and there was a fireworks display by Wilder of Birmingham.
The fetes continued for several more years and in 1902, Oswestry United FC held their August bank holiday fete until 1904. Oswestry Cycling Club held their annual sports on Thursday afternoon August 25th 1904, the weather was chilly and attendance was disappointing. There were half and one mile open handicap races, a two miles club handicap race for the Corrie Challenge Cup and the five miles NCU Birmingham District Championship. This was the last time that bicycle races were held at Park Hall.
When World War One broke out, Major Wynne Corrie moved out of Park Hall and handed the house and grounds over to the military, who used it for training troops, around 21,000 troops were stationed there. Park Hall burned down in 1918 and the Army expanded its training base, the military hospital at the Hall eventually became known as Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital. Park Hall remained a military camp through WW2, finally closing in the 1970s.
A football stadium was built at Park Hall in 1993 and Oswestry Town used it as their home ground after they sold their Victoria Road ground. A permanent Showground was established at Park Hall in the 1990s.
