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The Gimlet611 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.Prefect
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The Salina "Canal" ©467 viewsWhich drains from Wied il-Għasel and all the way back from beyond Chadwick Lakes.Prefect
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Salina Salt Pans ©485 viewsare being rehabilitated.
More here.Prefect
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The Comino Pig Farm806 viewsBuilt 1979 to raise stock to replace those lost to African Swine Fever.Prefect
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"Black Monday" 15 October 1979868 viewsTimes of MaltaPrefect
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1958 Riots716 viewsWhen Verdala School buses were stoned.Prefect
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Ta' Marija at Mosta ©472 viewsSome may remember it as The Whisper.Prefect
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Golden (Military) Bay 2012 ©459 viewsBefore the tourists had finished breakfast.Prefect
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Golden (Military) Bay ©514 viewsThe other side.Prefect
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Cambridge Battery, Tigne.625 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
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Sheer Bastion 1978701 viewsA new road is cut through demolishing the trade school.Prefect
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The Times398 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
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The Gut is being re-paved ©528 viewsPrefect
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The price of fags in 1963607 viewsTaken from this programme.Prefect
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English Curtain 2012 ©476 viewsAnd the Jews' Sally Port which has been enlarged since this time.
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Is Nothing Sacred? ©422 viewsSt Angelo is now used for adverts. Prefect
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The Lighthouse being spruced up ©402 viewsPrefect
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The New Breakwater Bridge ©370 viewsMost Grockle Boats have to go the long way round.Prefect
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The New Breakwater Bridge ©404 viewsIt is now open to the public but you are not allowed onto the Breakwater - it says here. And no fishing either.Prefect
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The New Breakwater Bridge ©413 viewsJune 2012Prefect
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St Anne's Square ©399 viewsNow adorned with a metallic origami thingy to glorify the EU.Prefect
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St Bartholomew Hospital456 viewsNot far from TH. History of Leprosy in Malta.Prefect
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Sitting on the wall is prohibited ...452 viewsMdina 2012 ©Prefect
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... Not like in the good old days!566 viewsMdina 1960 ©Prefect
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New Parliament Building ©443 viewsAnother Renzo Piano design. The stone cladding will put the Duckworths to shame!Prefect
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Saluting Battery ©440 viewsBeing readied for a posh dinner. June 2012.Prefect
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The Old Fishmarket533 viewsItself a 1953 copy of the original, was demolished in 1978 to make way for the Valletta Ring Road.Prefect
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Ouch!535 viewsThe Tritons Fountain was damaged in 1978 by staging erected for a political event.
Not repaired until 1987.Prefect
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Rockyvale 2012 ©560 viewsNow a closed & derelict events venue, there are plans for a massive redevelopment of the whole valley up to the regional road.Prefect
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Rockyvale 2012 ©628 viewsNo roller skating these days.Prefect
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Villa Portelli, Kalkara. ©890 viewsResidence of the CinC Med from 1961 (after Admiralty House closed) and FO/CBF Malta from 1968 to 1979.
Now the Maritime Institute.
THN Google MapPrefect
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Gerri in her Shop ©598 viewsIf you are in the area, do pop in for a balloon or something.
Corner of Triq l-Imsell with Triq it Turisti, Bugibba.Prefect
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