Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

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

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8 commentsPrefect11/30/08 at 00:49Prefect: Now Now! Slagging off Falklands veterans is not pe...
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8 commentsPrefect11/29/08 at 13:21Prefect: Embarrassed Well only one letter wrong. No wonder I cou...
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My mum, Joyce Day, on board RFA Amherst April/May 1960. ©648 viewsThis goes with the previous pic 'entering Grand harbour' She had just come back from Suda Bay, Crete. Time for cocktails no doubt! ( who last scrubbed the deck!! )3 commentsdeco.rise11/26/08 at 00:57Prefect: I think the problem with the deck is not lack of s...
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Tug awaiting RFA Amherst entering Grand Harbour - April/May 1960 ©569 views3 commentsdeco.rise11/25/08 at 12:26Prefect: Tug is probably Sea Giant. Photos of RFA Amherst a...
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Small twin Prop - Luqa about 1960805 viewsDon't recognise aircraft or occasion4 commentsdeco.rise11/12/08 at 11:45Prefect: De Havilland (Sea) Devon, used as VIP transports b...
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8 commentsPrefect11/12/08 at 00:38Prefect: Browsing through this once again (sad or what?), I...
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Old Bat Mystery Solved827 views6 commentsPrefect11/01/08 at 23:38Prefect: If the cap fits - wear it!
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Where's 'Old Bat'?!! ©748 viewsHere's another picture of the 1960 Verdala Sports Day. Were you hiding with your camera behind the trunk on the right 'Old Bat'?!2 commentsJohn Kirby10/31/08 at 11:54Prefect: My money (with magnification) is on the blue with ...
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Winning a prize ©672 viewsVerdala Sports 1960
2 commentsJohn Kirby10/31/08 at 03:03Prefect: Its a small world on TH Nostalgia! Is that you Old...
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RN Families Clinic, Tower Road Sliema - mid 60s © copyright Jane Banks (her Mum on bench)1020 viewsOnly the facade remains.

The view in 2018
5 commentsjane banks10/30/08 at 12:29Prefect: You werent quick enough. Your original on a differ...
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The Fleet's in ©934 viewsSummer 1960 - but where? Sliema Creek perhaps?4 commentsJohn Kirby10/28/08 at 11:54Prefect: Yes it is Sliema Creek this time. HMS Corrunna ce...
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HMS Ark Royal ©718 viewspossibly in Sliema Creek 19602 commentsJohn Kirby10/25/08 at 09:42Prefect: No - its Grand Harbour. She was too big for Sliema...
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Winning Team968 viewsTal Handaq visit to the 1960 Rome Olympics
See report in 1961 Magazine
1 commentsJohn Kirby10/25/08 at 00:25Prefect: On the Staff are - Mr. B. Cleaver, Mr. P. Ross (Ve...
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Sheer Bastion512 viewsOnce fitted with a ginormous set of shearlegs to lift things off ships.3 commentsPrefect10/19/08 at 10:06Prefect: No I think they were long ago ... research continu...
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Senglea649 viewsAnd a full Dockyard Creek.
5 commentsJohn Kirby10/18/08 at 23:26Prefect: Thats Sheer Bastion below the church. Present day ...
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Tal Handaq Girls and Boys in Winter uniform 57-58.2111 viewsAll signatures are HERE

Jane Banks nee Stubbs
7 commentsPrefect10/15/08 at 10:44Prefect: Just for the record Spike, its Gail Tainsh.
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Imperial Eagle 1970s772 viewsHer glory days past, having been displaced from the Marfa - Mgarr route by a Ro-Ro, she took over the freight route from Valletta from the Queen of Peace before eventually being laid up.16 commentsPrefect10/06/08 at 06:48Prefect: Its possible. This Site says that as New Royal Lad...
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HMS Tiger & Lion in Grand Harbour -24 August 19611039 viewsTiger steaming past her sister ship. According to my records this is the first occasion since the "Tiger" class Cruisers were launched that the two of them are seen together in the Med. Date please??4 commentsdeco.rise09/28/08 at 13:41Prefect: You should hear what my wife says about the state ...
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19581449 viewsBehind the bars Roger Tregunno and Henry Cavill. Two girls back to the wall are Olivia Fry and Francis Smith Front row sitting: Jackie Williams,?,Christine Barns,?, Hilary Paynter. I wonder if any of the visitors to your site would be able to name the two?
I'd love to know.
David Harvey
3 commentsPrefect09/28/08 at 13:16Prefect: Looks like a windy day. For news of Hilary Paynter...
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HMS Tiger & Lion in Grand Harbour -24 August 19611039 viewsTiger steaming past her sister ship. According to my records this is the first occasion since the "Tiger" class Cruisers were launched that the two of them are seen together in the Med. Date please??4 commentsdeco.rise09/28/08 at 05:27Prefect: Tiger became Med Flagship in late 1959, and left i...
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100th Minesweeper Sqn. off Grand Harbour 1960/61743 viewsFeint pic but a rarity. They are HMS Appleton, Upton, Wolverton & Yarnton 3 commentsdeco.rise09/28/08 at 05:03Prefect: I think it was the 108th MS which was in Malta fro...
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Spanish Frigate " Triton" going into Marsamxett, c1961655 views2 commentsdeco.rise09/22/08 at 14:35Prefect: And lots of whalers!
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Postcard - Sepia shot late 1930s756 viewsCan anyone name the Criusers & date it accurately?
Batttleships Warspite & Malaya. Date 1938-9.
Netlayer Guardian and Carrier is Courageous or Glorious
7 commentsdeco.rise09/22/08 at 07:36Prefect: Battleships/Battle Cruisers therefore probably pre...
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RFA Tide Austral, Spring 1960 Grand Harbour ©557 viewsAs per other 'at sea' pics, Tide Austral re-fuelled HMS Tiger at sea during exrecise I was on.1 commentsdeco.rise09/21/08 at 10:02Prefect: I moved her from Transport as although technically...
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Postcard - Gzira Creek 1029 viewsLooks like HMS Forth in foreground, can anybody name any more?6 commentsdeco.rise09/21/08 at 09:59Prefect: No its not Forth, she was in Msida Creek. Probably...
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Postcard - Grand Harbour, Cruiser c1950628 viewsCannot remember Cruiser's name. Anyone help?
HMS Liverpool.
1 commentsdeco.rise09/21/08 at 09:52Prefect: Cant see a Pennant Number so I'll stick it on ...
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Snap!561 viewsMy Dad's Hillman Minx 26457.2 commentsPrefect09/13/08 at 12:51Prefect: Yes, it was your pic that gave me the excuse to po...
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Malta from the air, late 1961518 viewsNot sure which end of Malta this is? Blue sea & sky as usual.2 commentsdeco.rise09/13/08 at 00:34Prefect: Looks like the South-East coast. St Thomas Bay &am...
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Pirates 1957 - with autographs516 viewsViv Paynter3 commentsPrefect09/07/08 at 05:44Prefect: I have found him on FR. Awaiting reply..... Yes he...
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Devonia1290 viewsHere is a Devonia 1966 slide, though I'm not sure where
(Probably Rhodes).
10 commentsPrefect08/14/08 at 13:10Prefect: Well, you were there, I wasnt. The School Mag for ...
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Old Postcards578 views2 commentsPrefect08/12/08 at 14:19Prefect: Probably early 1900s.
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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 banks08/04/08 at 10:56Prefect: Looks like this one. "We do not inherit the e...
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