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Date: 1883 Type: Hall Status: Demolished

The Volunteers’ Memorial Hall was built alongside the cricket ground. It was officially opened on 1 January 1883. It had four large side rooms and verandahs and could seat 150 people. It was built on ground donated by the Reynolds family. --------------------- "Umzinto is a large-sized, pretty, healthy village, 400 feet above the sea, in the vicinity of some of the finest sugar-land in the Colony. The hilly approach to the main portion of the townlet is picturesque, and the Public Hall and adjoining tennis courts and recreation grounds passed on the way, are very pleasantly situated." (Source: CW Francis Harrison. 1903. Natal: An illustrated official railway guide and handbook of general information. p. 188.)