Tal-Handaq Nostalgia

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

Last comments - Martin Powell
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Sheep (Not Shoats!)529 viewsWied il-Ghasel near Mosta.4 commentsPrefect10/08/11 at 08:56Martin Powell: Not while you're looking
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Looking down Dingli Street to Tower Road 2008551 viewsDingli Street seems to have got narrower over the years. The telephone box is just an old novelty now, but it does have all it's glass intact !2 commentsjane banks10/08/11 at 08:50Martin Powell: Looks like David (Jock) Norris just working up a t...
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Cdr MF Law696 viewsHeadmaster 1970 - 19742 commentsPrefect10/08/11 at 08:46Martin Powell: What had she done wrong?
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Sant'Antonio 1930419 viewsColeiro Brothers' barquentine stranded at Catania.
The company pioneered the wine and tomato paste industries.
3 commentsPrefect10/08/11 at 08:44Martin Powell: Now you've spoilt my comment. Pedant, moi?
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Pasteurized Milk660 views....was introduced in 1938, some thirty years after the link between Brucellosis (undulant fever aka Malta fever) and goats' milk was discovered.3 commentsPrefect10/08/11 at 08:29Martin Powell: AKA Malta Fever & Brucellosis - see comments below...
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Sant'Antonio 1930419 viewsColeiro Brothers' barquentine stranded at Catania.
The company pioneered the wine and tomato paste industries.
3 commentsPrefect10/07/11 at 16:15Martin Powell: Always wondered why the tomato paste tasted funny....
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Diving at Sliema597 viewsNear the Tower, probably 1930s.1 commentsPrefect10/07/11 at 16:13Martin Powell: Braces to keep your trunks up.
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Ghar id-Dud before the Chalet803 viewsPostcard2 commentsPrefect10/07/11 at 16:06Martin Powell: But a new kiosk back in the same place in foregrou...
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Cable Sign - Hay Wharf456 viewsView from Ta'Xbiex 2009.1 commentsMartin Powell08/01/11 at 17:18Martin Powell: See discussion under Tigne Barracks 1979 (& boatho...
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Captain Malkin & the God Squad753 views1968-69
Interesting that RAF Padres have ranks.
1 commentsPrefect07/10/11 at 04:15Martin Powell: Nearer my God to Thee.
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Winch Room1006 viewsRail tracks misaligned with doorway confirming suggestion of earlier use? Brennan Torpedo?12 commentsPrefect07/08/11 at 14:44Martin Powell: Yes David the BD winch is still inside (amazingly)...
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1969672 viewsVIEW4 commentsPrefect07/07/11 at 10:03Martin Powell: or 'Talhandaq in Malta' - hence "Co...
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1969672 viewsVIEW4 commentsPrefect07/07/11 at 08:11Martin Powell: What was wrong with just Services School?
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Roman Baths at Ghajn Tuffieha880 viewsClosed, overgrown and no sign of any conservation, so was unable to do a comparison with this.4 commentsPrefect07/07/11 at 06:59Martin Powell: Just themselves.
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Roman Baths at Ghajn Tuffieha880 viewsClosed, overgrown and no sign of any conservation, so was unable to do a comparison with this.4 commentsPrefect07/07/11 at 05:44Martin Powell: Won't hurt? They'll build a hotel on it ...
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Winch Room1006 viewsRail tracks misaligned with doorway confirming suggestion of earlier use? Brennan Torpedo?12 commentsPrefect07/07/11 at 05:14Martin Powell: hi Phill, what a brilliant site the Victorian Fort...
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Winch Room1006 viewsRail tracks misaligned with doorway confirming suggestion of earlier use? Brennan Torpedo?12 commentsPrefect07/01/11 at 05:00Martin Powell: Yes, the concrete could be ww2, but a magazine bui...
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More Tigne Relics659 views1 commentsPrefect07/01/11 at 04:54Martin Powell: Aha - that looks like the top of the b.d. mast in ...
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The Mother of all Tigne Tunnels ©471 viewsLinking Qui-Si-Sana to Xatt ta Tigne and now the main bus route as Bisazza Street is pedestrianised.
(One day you may even be able to enter the underground car park without going all the way to the Ferry and back again!)
2 commentsPrefect06/30/11 at 07:42Martin Powell: Blimey, they've tunnelled just beneath those ...
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Winch for boom defence688 viewsA tad rusty, but it has had 70 years exposed to the salt (although the doors were locked in our time). But Prefect took his wire brush this year and polished it all up.7 commentsMartin Powell06/30/11 at 04:49Martin Powell: Don't get too steamed up about it - it was di...
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HMS Striker 1951826 viewsWith Tigne Barracks as God intended!5 commentsPrefect06/29/11 at 16:51Martin Powell: Certainly looks like it.
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How to get to tunnels (2)628 viewsThe main steps here behind the sloping wall have been nicely restored. These were the steps opposite the families Naafi shop.9 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 16:47Martin Powell: The page with the original fort shows a sketch wit...
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How to get to tunnels (2)628 viewsThe main steps here behind the sloping wall have been nicely restored. These were the steps opposite the families Naafi shop.9 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 13:42Martin Powell: Thank you DG, Mike it was. As for the steps, I thi...
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How to get to tunnels (2)628 viewsThe main steps here behind the sloping wall have been nicely restored. These were the steps opposite the families Naafi shop.9 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 12:35Martin Powell: Via Tigne Street where I got on. We lived in the n...
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View from winch room564 viewsWhat ran on the tracks? Brennan Torpedo ammo?4 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 12:31Martin Powell: I was just waiting to see who'd spot that fir...
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How to get to tunnels (2)628 viewsThe main steps here behind the sloping wall have been nicely restored. These were the steps opposite the families Naafi shop.9 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 12:26Martin Powell: Hello David, keep meaning to say Hello but not bee...
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The hole in the cave roof616 viewsAt this rate I will have to start a new album just for Tigne.4 commentsPrefect06/29/11 at 07:58Martin Powell: No marks for the Risk Assessment (or was it a Cisk...
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How to get to tunnels (2)628 viewsThe main steps here behind the sloping wall have been nicely restored. These were the steps opposite the families Naafi shop.9 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 07:35Martin Powell: These are by the "swimming pool" in case...
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View from winch room564 viewsWhat ran on the tracks? Brennan Torpedo ammo?4 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 07:30Martin Powell: Yes, the bollard is probably the stump of the old ...
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Valetta from inside caves.580 views(I prefer the old spelling).7 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 07:25Martin Powell: There's a rude song about that too.
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Valetta from inside caves.580 views(I prefer the old spelling).7 commentsMartin Powell06/29/11 at 06:17Martin Powell: It uses one mostly - and I bet he didn't even...
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The hole in the cave roof616 viewsAt this rate I will have to start a new album just for Tigne.4 commentsPrefect06/29/11 at 06:13Martin Powell: Well you certainly explored fairly thoroughly. Tha...
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