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Tigne Beach about late 80s ©486 viewsNo-one in sight! Blue sky/sea toodeco.rise	"Stronger Cottonera Communities"422 viewsPrefect	Something happening at No.1 Dock ©548 views85% financed by the EU Cohesion Fund.4 commentsPrefect	Mellieha476 viewsNot that long ago.Prefect
Navarino Flats 2005 ©492 viewsphillrose	Filming The Malta Story 1952930 viewsĦaġar Qim or Mnajdra? More about it here.6 commentsPrefect	Navarino Flats 1960s ©692 viewsStella Maris Street.4 commentsNigel	View towards Anchor Bay ©483 viewsThe Mellieha By-Pass being rebuilt which caused chaos through the village this summer. IndependentPrefect
Mellieha Bay 2012 ©427 viewsHotels on both sides forever expanding.Prefect	The Cemetery of St Lawrence Parish Church ©437 viewsTHN Google Map Resting place of Miss ("Jackie / Jacquee") Yule.abigden	Marfa Ridge ©402 viewsThe newly resurfaced road and not before time! Alas the branch roads down to Armier etc remain rough.Prefect	East Street Valletta 1972470 views © Rex Cooper In from the Victoria Gate.Prefect
Buses, Valletta terminus ©596 viewsJust found this! This, believe or not, was taken in the Summer of 60 or 61 Looks contemporary.3 commentsdeco.rise	The salt pans ©592 viewsI see that the salt pans are being restored. This was the way they looked in about 1959.4 commentsOldBat	Riot time 1958 ©524 viewsGetting near Verdala beside those great bastion walls, and more rocks across the road.OldBat	Riot time 1958 ©554 viewsThe school buses driving through Cospicua had to negotiate their way round rocks strewn across the roadOldBat
Riot time 1958 ©782 viewsBarrier near Admiralty House, Valletta on the corner of South Street and Old Bakery StreetOldBat	But somethings didn't last!447 viewsPrefect	The Gimlet579 views"A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else" - Raymond Chandler. It may have been named after British Royal Navy Surgeon General Sir Thomas D. Gimlette, KCB (served 1879 to 1913), who allegedly introduced this drink as a means of inducing his messmates to take lime juice as an anti-scurvy medication.2 commentsPrefect	The Salina "Canal" ©442 viewsWhich drains from Wied il-Għasel and all the way back from beyond Chadwick Lakes.Prefect
Salina Salt Pans ©462 viewsare being rehabilitated. More here.Prefect	The Comino Pig Farm781 viewsBuilt 1979 to raise stock to replace those lost to African Swine Fever.Prefect	"Black Monday" 15 October 1979842 viewsTimes of MaltaPrefect	1958 Riots683 viewsWhen Verdala School buses were stoned.2 commentsPrefect
Ta' Marija at Mosta ©446 viewsSome may remember it as The Whisper.Prefect	Golden (Military) Bay 2012 ©434 viewsBefore the tourists had finished breakfast.Prefect	Golden (Military) Bay ©489 viewsThe other side.Prefect	Cambridge Battery, Tigne.593 viewsComplete with Lido which probably belonged to the Crowne Plaza. Built 1870 to house a 100 Ton Gun (all same Rinella), it is now being restored to something like it was - allegedly.Prefect
Sheer Bastion 1978679 viewsA new road is cut through demolishing the trade school.Prefect	The Times379 viewsWas obliged to drop "of Malta" following a Government decree in November 1978, which forbade the use of the name to organisations which did not hold the requisite licence. MADC became the Masks Amateur Dramatic Company!Prefect	The Gut is being re-paved ©506 viewsPrefect	The price of fags in 1963584 viewsTaken from this programme.2 commentsPrefect
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