Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

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


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Johnnie's Bar - Mosta703 viewsSeems popular. 8 commentsPrefect06/05/13 at 06:22robinwilliams: Very popular with the boys and girls from RNAS HA...
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Johnnie's Bar - Mosta703 viewsSeems popular. 8 commentsPrefect06/04/13 at 11:12Prefect: Thanks Robin.
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Johnnie's Bar - Mosta703 viewsSeems popular. 8 commentsPrefect06/04/13 at 10:33robinwilliams: Birzebuggia - Pretty Bay
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The Meadowbank559 views2 commentsPrefect06/03/13 at 01:49Ivan: Never mind the hotel - what great cars!
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Nix Mangiare Steps710 viewsOh Signore! Mi povero! Miserabile! Nix padre, nix madre, nix mangiare for sixteen days per Jesu Christo.”
1 commentsPrefect05/26/13 at 11:52Prefect: "The "Nix Mangiare Stairs" of Valle...
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Games & Merry-making 1896607 views"In the Piazza Maggiore is the Soldier's and Sailor's Home, an excellent charitable institution, furnished with a good serviceable library, a reading and writing room, smoking and other rooms. This admirably conceived and philanthropic organization is calculated to greatly benefit and improve the class for whom it is designed, affording them not only respectable accommodations, but occupation for their leisure hours. " (From The Story of Malta.)3 commentsPrefect05/26/13 at 08:40Prefect: Thanks Pullu. Sources indicate that the home, whic...
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Games & Merry-making 1896607 views"In the Piazza Maggiore is the Soldier's and Sailor's Home, an excellent charitable institution, furnished with a good serviceable library, a reading and writing room, smoking and other rooms. This admirably conceived and philanthropic organization is calculated to greatly benefit and improve the class for whom it is designed, affording them not only respectable accommodations, but occupation for their leisure hours. " (From The Story of Malta.)3 commentsPrefect05/26/13 at 06:32pullu: The facade of this building in The Mall, Floriana...
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Admiralty Tug Respond c1925564 views2 commentsPrefect05/24/13 at 22:54Prefect: But at one time the hull colour was red - Respond.
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Strait Street (Strada Stretta) 1933795 viewsJohn Clark1 commentsPrefect05/24/13 at 13:26alexander: many a good nights bevy down here
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Admiralty Tug Respond c1925564 views2 commentsPrefect05/24/13 at 13:24alexander: black hull white upper works buff funnel and masts
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Winston Churchill661 viewsTouring the Dockyard 19431 commentsPrefect05/24/13 at 12:30alexander: used to walk through this tunnel from senglea to c...
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HMS Courageous 1929730 viewsand lots of dockyard tugs.1 commentsPrefect05/24/13 at 12:27alexander: tugs roysterer,respond,then either cracker or rest...
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The King530 viewsArriving in HMS Aurora, June 20 1943.
Associated Press.
Large tug Ancient or Robust, small tug Carbine.
1 commentsPrefect05/24/13 at 11:26alexander: small tug carbine
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Anchors at Anchor Bay. Early 1950s.904 viewsPhill Rose
The question is - How did they get there?
6 commentsPrefect05/23/13 at 08:25dfss: I am pretty sure that I remember at least some anc...
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Anchor Bay with anchors864 viewsPhill Rose
And we now know how they got there. See It-Tunnara.
13 commentsPrefect05/22/13 at 23:32MilkMonitor: Information from John Pace indicates that the anch...
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Anchors at Anchor Bay. Early 1950s.904 viewsPhill Rose
The question is - How did they get there?
6 commentsPrefect05/22/13 at 23:31MilkMonitor: Information from John Pace indicates that the anch...
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Villa Rosa 706 views& St George's Bay 19455 commentsPrefect04/19/13 at 17:37OldBat: The Villa Rosa was the RASC officers' mess in...
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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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Villa Rosa 706 views& St George's Bay 19455 commentsPrefect04/01/13 at 07:20dfss: Might have dreamed of the lion.....but don't ...
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Villa Rosa 706 views& St George's Bay 19455 commentsPrefect04/01/13 at 06:01Rachel: I could have written the previous comment. Always...
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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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HMS Narvik & charges581 views1960 - 62.1 commentsPrefect03/30/13 at 08:12dfss: Does anyone remember the children's Christmas...
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Villa Rosa 706 views& St George's Bay 19455 commentsPrefect03/30/13 at 07:44dfss: A wonderful photo. I lived "next door" t...
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Land of Romance586 viewsAs drawn on a postcard depicting Strada Stretta before the war.
McEwans had a bottling plant in Malta.
2 commentsPrefect03/30/13 at 00:20Prefect: Artistic licence?
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Land of Romance586 viewsAs drawn on a postcard depicting Strada Stretta before the war.
McEwans had a bottling plant in Malta.
2 commentsPrefect03/29/13 at 15:51OldBat: I can't imagine there was anywhere as big as ...
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Old Bakery Street945 views3 commentsPrefect03/20/13 at 06:19OldBat: Well no it wouldn't, would it!! I just presu...
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Old Bakery Street945 views3 commentsPrefect02/27/13 at 23:06Prefect: I wouldn't dare! Yes that dome on the Carmeli...
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Old Bakery Street945 views3 commentsPrefect02/27/13 at 15:37OldBat: What a mess 'our' street was in during t...
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Anobat Flats ©1012 viewsCorner of Sur Fons St & P.O.W .Road St Julians, Ours was top corner flat. Mid/late 80s Map.7 commentsdeco.rise02/20/13 at 23:16admin: Deleting comments is not helpful as can make a non...
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St Andrew's Church of Scotland496 viewsSouth Street. A School Club operated in the Church Hall.
On the map.
2 commentsPrefect02/20/13 at 23:13Prefect: And here it is.
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