Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

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

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 A Quiet Day at the Beach605 viewsBut which one?2 commentsPrefect05/08/12 at 07:56Prefect: Could be though its perhaps too well equipped for ...
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 The Reserve Fleet700 viewsLazaretto Creek c19542 commentsPrefect05/08/12 at 07:18Prefect: Smile
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 Close Up 1954587 views3 commentsPrefect05/01/12 at 05:33Prefect: Thanks Robin. 1954 is all I have but I can't ...
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 Birżebbuġa or Birzebbugia in the 1960s792 views7 commentsPrefect04/25/12 at 10:59Prefect: No its miles away in in the far south.
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 The Bus Routes from 1955403 viewsSEE THEM ALL HERE
And for some excellent bus photos click here.1 commentsPrefect04/25/12 at 00:29Prefect: New link to 136 old bus photos.
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 Monitors 19603539 views1 commentsPrefect04/16/12 at 11:50Prefect: 91 votes?? Must be a fix Exclamation
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 Chadwick Lakes642 viewsFrom a 1966 Calendar.
Osbert Chadwick CMG2 commentsPrefect03/31/12 at 00:10Prefect: His biography doesnt say but he then went to Hayli...
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 Independence 21 September 1964517 viewsSee the video.2 commentsPrefect03/23/12 at 12:30Prefect: But he was the good guy. Borg Olivier.
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 Egmont Close 1960677 viewsWe lived at No. 47.
2 commentsJohn Kirby03/23/12 at 12:19Prefect: And who could forget Marlene!
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 The end of the day, Grand Harbour 1959 ©1151 views10 commentsOldBat03/12/12 at 14:34Prefect: Now given an online digital dusting with my new ga...
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 Class 3c 19581456 viewsFrom Dot Hicks. The class teacher was Miss Knight. I am second from the left as you look at the photo. Mary Henderson is on my right, Freida Payne is on her right. Next is Belma Aytek a Turkish girl and the last girl I think was called Eileen.2 commentsPrefect03/09/12 at 08:18Prefect: The boys will have to name themselves! Keith Lamin...
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 To the Memory of Mr Jack Smedley988 viewsSee also HERE

...and full story HERE2 commentsPrefect03/05/12 at 00:58Prefect: Mrs Smedley taught at Verdala.
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 Postcard - Gzira Creek 1029 viewsLooks like HMS Forth in foreground, can anybody name any more?6 commentsdeco.rise03/04/12 at 01:35Prefect: They were similar and Ausonia replaced Ranpura in ...
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 Shackletons 1964679 viewsNew link to Pathe newsreel Malta Independent added HERE
Lots of RAF photos HERE2 commentsPrefect03/03/12 at 12:18Prefect: And now we have no MRs at all. Sad
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 Daphne Wye1112 viewsOn her roof at Senglea.3 commentsPrefect02/23/12 at 13:14Prefect: Daphne was there 1958 - 1961.
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 The King & I, 1973.709 viewsRead all about it3 commentsPrefect02/22/12 at 11:55Prefect: He seems to have been a man of many talents - see ...
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 HMS Lion off Fort Manoel758 viewsProbably 1962.3 commentsPrefect02/16/12 at 08:06Prefect: I think she used Pieta Creek where the buoys norma...
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 HMS Victorious 1958639 views2 commentsPrefect02/13/12 at 10:47Prefect: Could be though Faithful was also there in 1958.
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 A boat Grand Harbour753 viewsTaken from the deck of Devonia as she was leaving G.H. for the 1966 T.H. school cruise. We were on our way to Libya to pick up some American kids. So pre-Gaddafi when El Adem was still operational.10 commentsChris Howells02/06/12 at 12:16Prefect: Well perhaps a better use of them than razor blade...
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 Kingsgate Terminus in 1967 ©500 viewsThe buses are organised by teardrop route signs.2 commentsMartin Powell02/06/12 at 07:17Prefect: Or siphoning the petrol?
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 A boat Grand Harbour753 viewsTaken from the deck of Devonia as she was leaving G.H. for the 1966 T.H. school cruise. We were on our way to Libya to pick up some American kids. So pre-Gaddafi when El Adem was still operational.10 commentsChris Howells02/06/12 at 07:01Prefect: Faithful. Director. Expert.
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 Ta'Xbiex 1960s780 viewsFrom a 1965 Calendar.5 commentsMartin Powell02/06/12 at 00:53Prefect: Fairmile B, I reckon.
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 A boat Grand Harbour753 viewsTaken from the deck of Devonia as she was leaving G.H. for the 1966 T.H. school cruise. We were on our way to Libya to pick up some American kids. So pre-Gaddafi when El Adem was still operational.10 commentsChris Howells02/06/12 at 00:40Prefect: BTW El Adem was British, the Yanks were at Wheelus...
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 My then boyfriend Joe's car, not very affectionately known as 'the orange Anglia"!747 viewsThe four figures with the car are - Joyce Rippin, needlework teacher at Tal Handaq, Ian Merrilees, doing his National Service on the C-in-C's flagship HMS Surprise, Liz Keating from Ireland who was teaching in a Maltese school and Joe Mardel, Admiralty Civil Engineer.
© Liz Mardel5 commentsOldBat01/26/12 at 00:47Prefect: Salmon pink surely? Splendid shot - 100E, two tone...
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 Breakwater Foundation Stone645 viewsLaid by King Edward VII at Ricasoli 1903.2 commentsPrefect01/15/12 at 10:59Prefect: The Dockyard Schoolchildren sang under the baton o...
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 Memoir - Misses Candey & Yule653 views4 commentsPrefect01/15/12 at 10:51Prefect: So who were the elite?
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 Football 1969699 views Philip Smith on the left & Roy Aldworth?2 commentsPrefect01/13/12 at 12:11Prefect: What are hotel shorts?
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 TH and RAF Luqa1171 views4 commentsbernardhoctor 01/13/12 at 11:32Prefect: The Romney huts were built in the late 50s. Bernar...
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 Stormy Sky over Senglea 1961552 viewsA superb image taken by a most valued contributor.3 commentsOldBat01/12/12 at 23:47Prefect: Its got your name under it! And that took a lot of...
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 More names please1432 viewsMalcolm Hill5 commentsPrefect01/12/12 at 08:09Prefect: You can edit your comments Spike and perhaps add a...
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 Staff 19741512 viewsFRONT ROW : David Taylor, Mavis Turner, Stephen Singleton,, Lt. Cdr. J. Cottam, Cdr. M.F. Law, Pamela Smith, Lt. Cdr. C. McCafferty, Brian Leonard, Trevor Ricketts.
SECOND ROW : Moira Clarke, Imelda Dickinson, Carmel Walsh, Maureen Whittle, Joyce Walden, Hilary Hill, Michael Caseley, Judith Stansfield, Sylvia Beckett, James' Hobson, Charles Aquilina, John Treeby.
THIRD ROW : Laurence Bezzina, John Naylor, Hugh Ritchie, Norah Ash, Margaret MacKay, Kenneth Winn, Merilyn Manley-Harris, Rosemary Leighton, James Glover, Elizabeth Cole, Carl Hancock.
FOURTH ROW : Jeffrey Bonner, John Clemens, Alan Latham, June Lattimer, Lewis Finnis, David Ditcham, Barrie Menhams, Robert Woolams, Ronald Ransom, Michael Newton.
BACK ROW : Frank Kitson, Robert Ward, Barrie Jones, Philip Allen, David Walker, Peter Wright.
ABSENT : Miss Mary Spray, Miss Helen Wilson, Miss Sandra Camilleri.
4 commentsPrefect01/12/12 at 00:18Prefect: I wouldn't know. Back in the sensible sixties...
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 Verdala Barracks and School913 viewsDate uncertain but the palm tree is there!6 commentsPrefect01/08/12 at 01:22Prefect: 50 years if you count the Dockyard School.
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