The son of a miner, Hall was born and brought up in North Seaton,
Ashington,
Northumberland, and he attended nearby
Bedlington Grammar School until 1949. Before starting his own business career, he worked in the mining industry as a surveyor. In the 1980s, after Hall and his wife visited the
Eaton Centre in
Toronto,
Canada and the
West Edmonton Mall in
Alberta, Canada, Hall's company, Cameron Hall Developments, masterminded the construction of the
MetroCentre shopping mall in
Dunston, Gateshead. Hall acquired
Wynyard Hall in May 1987.
Wynyard Golf Club was opened in 1995. Hall was
knighted in the
1991 Birthday Honours. Hall's company bought
Woolsington Hall, northwest of Newcastle, in 1994. Hall had planned several developments of the site, including a football academy and a luxury hotel with golf course. In 2002, the hall was added to
English Heritage's
Heritage at Risk Register and, as of 2021, is vacant following fire damage and requiring full restoration. In April 2010, Hall announced that he was suffering from inoperable
prostate cancer and was about to embark on a course of intensive chemotherapy. As of February 2011, the cancer was being kept under control by medication, and Hall was concentrating on his final project, a £2.5-million rose garden at his
Wynyard Park estate, which Hall purchased as a country estate and developed it into a hotel with housing developments. On 10 February 2011, at a ceremony at the
Shipley Art Gallery, Hall and his wife were given the freedom of Gateshead for their services to leisure, retail, business and sport. == Newcastle United Football Club ==