Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

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

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Class 5J2115 viewsClass 5J 1977 Talhandaq school Malta (Miss Ash)3 commentsbmale2204/19/10 at 08:59Prefect: From Helen Wison: The picture for 5J shows Norah A...
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HMT Cheshire381 viewsOn leaving Malta in 1954 we, as a family, travelled back to UK in Cheshire docking in Liverpool. The ship not only carried families but also a lot of troops returning from a tour in Egypt.1 commentsrobinwilliams04/17/10 at 12:07Prefect: One often sees commercially owned and civilian man...
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Padre Gover709 viewsMalcolm Hill4 commentsPrefect04/12/10 at 13:37Prefect: Mid 1950s. The category covers those attached as w...
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Ambassadorial Limo 2008 ©504 viewsPrivileged to drive down Kingsway.5 commentsPrefect04/02/10 at 06:06Prefect: Ah so.
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U 17611 viewsGerman Navy submarine U-17 (Pennant number S196) slipped into Grand Harbour this morning for a courtesy visit. It is seen above crossing Dockyard Creek, which is dominated by the sleek lines of the superyacht The Maltese Falcon.
Times of Malta.
(In the distance can be seen some obscure scholastic buildings, with vegetation.)
4 commentsPrefect03/31/10 at 11:14Prefect: Not that I don't like them, just too old to ma...
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Tigne front about 1959. Taken by my Joe from a chopper. He had a flat in Caledonia Mansions, one of the big blocks on the front.558 views3 commentsOldBat03/30/10 at 13:09Prefect: Just a thought! And nice to see Tigne as it is no ...
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The end of the day, Grand Harbour 1959 ©1152 views10 commentsOldBat03/30/10 at 04:45Prefect: Almost certainly RFA Tide Austral, later HMAS Supp...
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Tigne front about 1959. Taken by my Joe from a chopper. He had a flat in Caledonia Mansions, one of the big blocks on the front.558 views3 commentsOldBat03/30/10 at 04:44Prefect: Could it have been 1958? Looks like a salvage vess...
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St Paul's Bay from Wardija559 views2 commentsPrefect03/28/10 at 08:46Prefect: I think its all been demolished now Phill. It did ...
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Lady Mountbatten990 viewsNot sure if I or my sister Denise is in this photo
but taken in school hall probably 1953.
Including, Jennifer Paige, Ethel Mitchell, Valerie Fogden, Marilyn Hawkins.
5 commentsrobinwilliams03/22/10 at 07:41Prefect: From the 1953 Magazine - "We have been please...
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Earl Mountbatten and Missus in safe hands ©615 viewsTaken in 1953 with Whaler crewed by Dockyard Sea Scouts.
The Dockyard Sea Scouts also had Maltese members unlike
Tal Handaq's.Cannot remember occasion but I was the Bow oarsman.
2 commentsrobinwilliams03/07/10 at 15:15Prefect: And making a splendid effort Robin, even if you ar...
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Manoel Island1015 viewsHarry Greig1 commentsPrefect03/07/10 at 01:28Prefect: The unidentified girl in the picture in the 1960s ...
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Tal Handak 1949983 viewsJohn Clark2 commentsPrefect03/05/10 at 08:42Prefect: No sign of it in my day. Was it awarded to the win...
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Ghar id-Dud806 views3 commentsPrefect03/04/10 at 06:27Prefect: No I think this is earlier. There is a 1960 shot (...
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The obliteration of Tigne continues670 viewsMartin Powell7 commentsPrefect03/04/10 at 03:39Prefect: Yes, see discussion under pic of Marsamxett Ferry ...
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Gozo trip 19701146 viewsLeft front to back: Dom Busuttil Rivers , Dom Wujastyk (rear view), Joe Vincenti, Dave Shepherd (Exile).
Right f-b: Martin Lawrence, Caroline Cary (Porridge), Adrian Worley, Diane Lawrence, Eddie Eichmann
12 commentsMartin Powell03/02/10 at 04:52Prefect: Never did Biology. Wink
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Gozo trip 19701146 viewsLeft front to back: Dom Busuttil Rivers , Dom Wujastyk (rear view), Joe Vincenti, Dave Shepherd (Exile).
Right f-b: Martin Lawrence, Caroline Cary (Porridge), Adrian Worley, Diane Lawrence, Eddie Eichmann
12 commentsMartin Powell03/02/10 at 01:37Prefect: You are forgiven. Its just as well that I was well...
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Gozo trip 19701146 viewsLeft front to back: Dom Busuttil Rivers , Dom Wujastyk (rear view), Joe Vincenti, Dave Shepherd (Exile).
Right f-b: Martin Lawrence, Caroline Cary (Porridge), Adrian Worley, Diane Lawrence, Eddie Eichmann
12 commentsMartin Powell03/01/10 at 04:57Prefect: Well if you must desert the website which put you ...
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RADM Bellamy & Captain Malkin 19671071 viewsInstructor Rear Admiral AJ Bellamy OBE MA, The Director, Naval Education Service, on his visit to Tal Handaq, 17-18 April. Admiral Bellamy was Headmaster of Tal Handaq from 1951 - 1954.5 commentsPrefect02/27/10 at 01:28Prefect: If its anything like the RFA archives, they have p...
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Castille 1930s687 views4 commentsPrefect02/20/10 at 02:21Prefect: See new pic showing Signal Station.
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The Social Whirl 1949458 views2 commentsPrefect02/17/10 at 16:17Prefect: Perhaps the Colmers corrected it themselves? Diffe...
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A Palm framed by a Palm495 viewsMartin Powell5 commentsPrefect02/17/10 at 16:14Prefect: Snitch!
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A Palm framed by a Palm495 viewsMartin Powell5 commentsPrefect02/10/10 at 01:50Prefect: He cannot tell a lie either Miss, its an old postc...
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Raising a submarine in Msida Creek ca 1958 ©1121 viewsPhoto by (Miss) Barbara Kernahan6 commentsOldBat02/06/10 at 01:29Prefect: I cannot tell a lie Miss, I would be lost without ...
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HMS London 1947792 viewsAndrew Blake2 commentsPrefect02/04/10 at 13:59Prefect: Oh dear, how sad, never mind!
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Raising a submarine in Msida Creek ca 1958 ©1121 viewsPhoto by (Miss) Barbara Kernahan6 commentsOldBat02/04/10 at 12:02Prefect: Most did but I think some of the smaller ones had ...
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Raising a submarine in Msida Creek ca 1958 ©1121 viewsPhoto by (Miss) Barbara Kernahan6 commentsOldBat02/04/10 at 06:49Prefect: Must have been this one - 1 April 1942: HMS P36 wa...
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HMS Forth in Msida Creek ca 1958 ©717 viewsStunning photo by Barbara Kernahan from the window of her flat.1 commentsOldBat02/04/10 at 02:34Prefect: Looks like the seasonal Msida Monsoon floods!
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Triton Fountain, Kingsgate485 viewsTaken on 'opening' day which I think was 1953 to co-incide with QE2 Coronation ?3 commentsrobinwilliams02/01/10 at 05:30Prefect: Interesting but most sources on the web say the ye...
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HMS Trafalgar 1897576 viewsR.Ellis2 commentsPrefect01/31/10 at 17:56Prefect: Rolling Eyes
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1965 L6A (1 of 4)998 viewsJohn Atherton, ?, John Noble, Mike (Smiley) Jamieson front and centre, ?, ?, ?.
Correction - John Saddler, Geoff Milton, John Moore (aka "Flash"), Graham ?, Nigel Vaughan, Paul Jenner; centre is Steve Commons.
4 commentsNigel01/31/10 at 17:47Prefect: Thanks. That explains why I never got one!
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New Year Party 19601048 viewsHarry Greig3 commentsPrefect01/26/10 at 12:38Prefect: There's more for you there OB. One of those Ki...
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