The Young Memorial Hall

The Music Hall

It appears that Joseph and John Young built the Music Hall for the town in 1857, but retained ownership; and that their heirs donated the hall to town in 1869. Quotations concerning the Music Hall:- Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 1882-85: "The Music Hall (400 seats), lying off the E end of High Street, was built in 1857 at a cost of nearly £2000, all defrayed by Messrs John and Joseph Young of Dunearn; and, given by their representatives in 1869 to the town, serves both for entertainments and public meetings." Fifeshire Advertiser, 5 December 1857: "Our Hall. Would that we could rouse the inhabitants to shake off their torpor and take advantage of the many sources of amusement and instruction opened to them by this building. The Hall, liberal as it was in the Messrs Young to erect it, is only a means to an end and if the inhabitants do not by their patronage of lectures, concerts and other innocent gratifications come forward and appropriate the good it is calculated to bestow, then the stones had as well been left in the quarry. We hope for better things however. We trust many assemblages both grave and gay will yet meet together in our peerless Music Hall and where the recipients of information and enjoyment give credit to the liberality that reared its graceful proportions." The plaque inside the Music Hall says: "This hall, erected and fitted up by Joseph Young Esq and John Young Esq at their joint expense, was presented as a free gift to the town of Burntisland, 1869."