Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

Memories of the Royal Naval School, Malta, 1947 - 1978.


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Baluta Bay, Sliema, Spring 1961527 viewsAbout 200 yds from Sur Fons St. where I used to live.
Oh that Blue Sky!
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Site of The Dockyard Club (DUKOC)488 viewsSt Ignatius Junction/Old College Hill.
Later known as the Admiralty United Kingdom Officers Club. Believed renamed yet again as the Churchill Club.
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Dghajsa Trade Revival?519 views2 commentsPrefect
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Optimistic439 viewsBoat for sale on Comino.Prefect
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And some fell on stony ground447 viewsComino 2008Prefect
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The Phoenicia Hotel522 viewsAnd the Kingsgate Bus Terminus before the erection of the Triton Fountain in 1959.Prefect
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Neptune Water Polo Club,Balluta Bay, early 1950s892 viewsThis is now a Lido and Dive Center.jane banks
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Church Procession around Balluta Bay 1950.578 viewsUnfortunately the villas went to make way for Le Meridian Hotel but the front wall and facade was kept and is now the restaurant entrance.jane banks
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Balluta Bay Ironmongers 1950s506 viewsYani and her Family outside their shop and I was the Saturday helper !jane banks
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Coronation soccer tournament Advert 1953.471 viewsjane banks
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Postcard Spinola532 viewsProbably 1950s.Prefect
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Politics 2473 viewsPro - Integration meeting 1955. Qui-Si-Sana.Prefect
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Politics 1466 viewsAnti- Socialist meeting 1958Prefect
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'Earth spinning on water' 2008466 viewsThis has appeared on the Promenade ,Balluta Bay with the words taken from a native American proverb. 2 commentsjane banks
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More Male Bonding460 viewsDockyard Officers Xmas Bash 1952/3.
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Msida Church and Marina 2008410 viewsjane banks
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Msida Creek 2008503 views3 commentsjane banks
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Royal Visit May 1954452 viewsMore shots in the album Royal Visit 1954Prefect
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Pieta Creek 1960s565 viewsRFA Fort Duquesne and RASC launches.Prefect
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Looking down Dingli Street to Tower Road 2008551 viewsDingli Street seems to have got narrower over the years. The telephone box is just an old novelty now, but it does have all it's glass intact !2 commentsjane banks
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George's Store,top of Dingli Street ,2008530 viewsIn the 50s ,every Saturday morning I took our 'grocery' list here. The shop is still owned by the same family.jane banks
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Sliema 1952526 viewsLooking straight down Dingli Street.Prefect
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Pretty Bay - Birzebbuga793 views3 commentsPrefect
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Comino - The Blue Lagoon.610 viewsGetting a bit crowded.Prefect
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Marsaxlokk Panorama535 views3 commentsPrefect
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More Development470 viewsSmartCity - a high tech business park being built between Fort Rinella and Fort St Rocco.Prefect
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And talking of good bookshops ...543 views... another one bites the dust as Sapienzas is taken over by a chain store.1 commentsPrefect
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A Leaving Party 1958ish623 viewsOn an RFA?
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Local Transport560 viewsAt Ghajn Tuffieha 1952
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Tal Handaq makes the A-Z441 viewsAcknowledgments to The mAZe.
15 Euros from all good booksellers.
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Tigne 2008536 viewsShowing the last of the Barracks, the excavations for the "Fort Cambridge" development, a glimpse of Cambridge Battery and the almost finished "Tigne Point" development.Prefect
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Bighi 2008468 viewsSome parts restored and in use, others left to crumble.
Despite the presence of the Heritage Dept, there is no acknowledgement of its former function.
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