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Then & Now

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Royal Visit 1954

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Naval & Military

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Transport

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Before Our Time

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SNSO Naval Stores / Dockyard Technical College147 viewsThe metal buildings were used by SNSO after WW2, and later as classrooms by the Dockyard College.

See also this one1 commentsderrick calver04/28/23 at 11:09derrick calver: As well as the Dockyard during the 1950s SNSO had...

SNSO Naval Stores Office 1942138 viewsSNSO Malta after bombing April 1942

Photo : Imperial War Museum1 commentsderrick calver04/28/23 at 10:59derrick calver: For anyone interested in Malta can I recommend The...

Before Egmont Close287 viewsThis is a photo taken in 1915/6 of St Ignatius Military Hospital by Richard Ellis. You are looking along what would become St Ignatius Junction towards Balluta Bay. Egmont Close would be built on the right of this photo.2 commentsderrick calver11/23/22 at 16:32derrick calver: No the church on the righthand side of the main bu...

Before Egmont Close287 viewsThis is a photo taken in 1915/6 of St Ignatius Military Hospital by Richard Ellis. You are looking along what would become St Ignatius Junction towards Balluta Bay. Egmont Close would be built on the right of this photo.2 commentsderrick calver11/23/22 at 13:39mikew: It looks like this hospital site would eventually ...

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Winning entry40 viewsMike Vingoe (Verdala & Tal-Handaq) won with this entry in the Sunday Telegraph a few years agoderrick calverJul 08, 2024

The Ballad of Sammy's Bar - Cyril Tawney (ex-submariner Malta)70 viewsTHE BALLAD OF SAMMY'S BAR
Cyril Tawney
I went down to Sammy's Bar
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
By the shore at Pieta
Call away the di-so

And my real love, she was there
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
There was sand all in her hair
Call away the di-so

How did sand get in your hair
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
Darling Johnny put it there
Call away the di-so

Been with Johnny all the day
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
Down at Ghajn Tuffhieha Bay
Call away the di-so

He's a better man by far
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
Because he's got a Yankee car
Call away the di-so

I went out from Sammy's Bar
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
Had to hire a Yankee car
Call away the di-so

Fourteen days I drank no wine
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
Saving for that love of mine
Call away the di-so

Then one day in Paola square
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
At a paper I did stare
Call away the di-so

Johnny tried a hairpin bend
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
For my love, it was the end
Call away the di-so

Going back to Sammy's Bar
Hey, the last boat's a-leaving
I don't need no Yankee car
Call away the di-so
CT 1958

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Cyril Tawney writes the background HEREadminJun 26, 2024

Swings playground at St Julian's Tower79 viewsDragonara in background. 1960s?

The hard kids could get the seat up to the bars - at the passengers' peril.

Swingers unidentified. Source unattributed.adminApr 21, 2024

Caption Competition111 viewsBalluta 1985adminApr 08, 2024

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Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

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