Pietermaritzburg City Hall is the largest red brick building in the Southern Hemisphere
- Built in 1893 (the most accurate date we have come across)
- Victorian architecture
- Ravaged by fire in 1895
- Rebuilt in 1901
- 47m High Bell Tower
- Houses one of the biggest pipe organs in the southern hemisphere with 3806 pipestringing with sizes starting at the thickness of a knitting needle right up to pipes 11 meters in size.
- Declared a South African National Landmark in 1969
Here are some great photo's we found from way back when:
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