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Friday, 16 August 2013

SA FACT #1

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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