Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

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


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Troopship Empire Ken c1956590 views ©Rex Cooper
9523tons, built 1928, UBENA, German East Africa Line. 1939 German Navy, U-Boat depot ship.
1945 German hopital ship. 1945 Seized by Allies at Travemunde. 1945 EMPIRE KEN, MOWT troopship. 1957 Scrapped Dalmuir

2 commentsPrefect11/23/20 at 21:19Martin Powell: Exclamation
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Troopship Empire Ken c1956590 views ©Rex Cooper
9523tons, built 1928, UBENA, German East Africa Line. 1939 German Navy, U-Boat depot ship.
1945 German hopital ship. 1945 Seized by Allies at Travemunde. 1945 EMPIRE KEN, MOWT troopship. 1957 Scrapped Dalmuir

2 commentsPrefect11/23/20 at 20:57billkby: I was 6 when we sailed on the Empire Ken, rough ov...
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Making a comeback213 viewsNewly restored buses for hire from Malta Bus Co-op

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1 commentsadmin01/05/20 at 12:24Ivan: That is a fine photograph. What a good idea; I wis...
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Città di Livorno ©452 views1 commentsPrefect01/24/18 at 18:57pixelshot: Yes our expedition to Italy left and returned on t...
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The Coast Road Dualled508 viewsSee the video.
The original was built by the Royal Engineers.
7 commentsPrefect11/18/15 at 16:30Martin Powell: Eminently reasonable.
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The Coast Road Dualled508 viewsSee the video.
The original was built by the Royal Engineers.
7 commentsPrefect11/18/15 at 06:45Prefect: Maybe. An explanation I have seen somewhere is tha...
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The Coast Road Dualled508 viewsSee the video.
The original was built by the Royal Engineers.
7 commentsPrefect11/17/15 at 19:36Martin Powell: What have good drivers got to do with it? Maybe th...
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The Coast Road Dualled508 viewsSee the video.
The original was built by the Royal Engineers.
7 commentsPrefect11/17/15 at 16:35Prefect: Good drivers do not have tunnel vision. The view w...
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The Coast Road Dualled508 viewsSee the video.
The original was built by the Royal Engineers.
7 commentsPrefect11/17/15 at 16:13Martin Powell: Eyes on the road! I assumed the roundabout would j...
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The Coast Road Dualled508 viewsSee the video.
The original was built by the Royal Engineers.
7 commentsPrefect11/17/15 at 14:12Prefect: Still 40kph when I was there but probably 60-80 no...
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The Coast Road Dualled508 viewsSee the video.
The original was built by the Royal Engineers.
7 commentsPrefect11/17/15 at 13:58Martin Powell: Lovely new toy for the boy-racers. Speed limit?
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Octopus ©378 viewsIn Mellieha Bay. Wiki1 commentsPrefect11/06/15 at 15:47Nick Woodley: Wondered where I had left it.
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The Ferry - Before 1959544 views4 commentsPrefect08/23/15 at 16:55Prefect: That was selling bus tickets.
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The Ferry - Before 1959544 views4 commentsPrefect08/23/15 at 14:38phillrose: Sorry, meant the small wooden kiosk like a garden ...
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The Ferry - Before 1959544 views4 commentsPrefect08/23/15 at 06:50Prefect: There was another one behind it.
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The Ferry - Before 1959544 views4 commentsPrefect08/21/15 at 12:48phillrose: The spot where I would wait for the school bus in ...
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Viscounts at Luqa475 views1 commentsPrefect08/07/15 at 14:56Ivan: Plus (from L to R), RAF Handley Page Hastings, RAF...
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Trouble on the Buses again!444 viewsNew ticket system. And the tourists are being ripped off again. Times of Malta.1 commentsPrefect07/05/15 at 14:33phillrose: What was the old song? "Oh you'll never ...
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Star of Malta651 viewsAground on Mercanti Reef off St Julian's Bay July 1955.
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1 commentsPrefect04/14/15 at 01:41Chris Russon: Somewhere in the background a 3-year old me is gaw...
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Thames 3037 at the Ferry583 views5 commentsPrefect02/19/15 at 23:04Martin Powell: The Army & Navy is still there though in a new inc...
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Thames 3037 at the Ferry583 views5 commentsPrefect02/06/15 at 16:42Prefect: And on the right was the Army & Navy Restaurant wh...
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Thames 3037 at the Ferry583 views5 commentsPrefect02/06/15 at 14:43phillrose: Just as I remember it as well. Behind the big tree...
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Thames 3037 at the Ferry583 views5 commentsPrefect02/05/15 at 06:21Prefect: Not dated. The Prefect 100E 4 door dates from 1953...
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Thames 3037 at the Ferry583 views5 commentsPrefect02/04/15 at 20:35Ivan: Now, that’s how I remember it, although the truc...
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Birkirkara Station391 views2 commentsPrefect06/27/14 at 13:34Prefect: Yes - Santa Marija (m.b. il-Knisja l-Qadima) St. M...
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Birkirkara Station391 views2 commentsPrefect06/27/14 at 12:30saviourmicallef045: Is that Santa Marija Church?
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Grand Harbour - Postcard about late 50s?437 views2 commentsdeco.rise01/26/14 at 07:50Prefect: Don't think so. She always had a black hull, ...
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Grand Harbour - Postcard about late 50s?437 views2 commentsdeco.rise01/26/14 at 07:45FORDALAN: I think this is the Italian ship Cita de Livorno
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Ken Stubbs, Bunty Stubbs, Margaret Gamble, Paddy Gamble, Malta 19521389 viewsThe car is possibly a Riley ?4 commentsdfss04/01/13 at 07:23dfss: Wouldn't have thought that there were very ma...
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Ken Stubbs, Bunty Stubbs, Margaret Gamble, Paddy Gamble, Malta 19521389 viewsThe car is possibly a Riley ?4 commentsdfss04/01/13 at 01:46robinwilliams: I had a chum, whose name I cannot remember, who li...
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Ken Stubbs, Bunty Stubbs, Margaret Gamble, Paddy Gamble, Malta 19521389 viewsThe car is possibly a Riley ?4 commentsdfss04/01/13 at 00:15dfss: Yes prefect, you are right.....I remember now bein...
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Ken Stubbs, Bunty Stubbs, Margaret Gamble, Paddy Gamble, Malta 19521389 viewsThe car is possibly a Riley ?4 commentsdfss03/31/13 at 12:19Prefect: Looks like a Triumph Mayflower to me.
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