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Park Hall Academy (formerly Park Hall School) is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Castle Bromwich in the West Midlands of England. [1]Previously a community school administered by Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council, Park Hall School converted to academy status in September 2009 and was renamed Park Hall Academy.
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The name lives on in 'Park Hall School', which is on the other side of the road, and is the largest secondary school in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull. 'Castle Bromwich Post Office' was the first to have a telephone outside London so that Benjamin Disraeli could keep in touch with the government.
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Edward Arden of Park Hall, Castle Bromwich, was Sheriff of Warwickshire in 1575 and was the son of William Arden (d. 1545). He was the second cousin of Mary Arden , mother of William Shakespeare . In 1583, he came under suspicion for being head of a family that had remained loyal to the Catholic Church , and was sentenced for allegedly plotting ...
Arden lived in Park Hall, Castle Bromwich, an estate near modern-day Birmingham. He was a recusant Catholic and kept a priest , Hugh Hall, at his house disguised as a gardener. Arden's son-in-law, John Somerville , hatched a plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I , but was arrested long before he could attempt it.
The hall is today part of Solihull School. Also constructed in 1712, was Touchwood Hall at the end of Drury Lane on Teinters Green. The hall would serve as the home of the Holbeche family, former lords of the manor at Widney Manor and a prominent local family. The hall would later be held by the Madeley and Martineau families.
In 1473–74 during the Wars of the Roses there was a family dispute involving the Bracebridges and their distant relations, the Ardens (William Shakespeare's maternal ancestors) of Park Hall in Castle Bromwich. John Arden had fallen in love with Alice Bracebridge. John's father, Sir Walter, did not approve.