sliema (part of) as it was 25 years ago

[@sharonsammug9751]

Lovely memories use to go swimming and worked there too when i was teenager and when i got married use to take my children by the beach like my mother and father use to take use when we wrere kids thank you for this lovely vedeo

[@tomvigar1]

thank you very much actually that film was shot in 1989

[@doeharris5363]

This video brings back so many beautiful memories, l loved the way it was but, it has changed so much l would rather hang on to the memories of a time gone by. Thank you so much for sharing your video. 😊😊😊😊🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Lauraajrallim]

I absolutely loved your video! It brought a tear to my eye. I lived in Malta from 1976-1978 and remember how original and traditional it was. Upon returning many years later I have seen the beautiful, cultural architecture ripped out and replaced by modern high rise blocks (that you can see in any big city). Please, people of Malta - preserve your USP - you can NEVER get it back. Don't bash down and out rip the glorious old buildings of such a wonderful place... do them up instead.

[@tomvigar1]

I know the feeling my dear what they have done is obscene - anyway glad you enjoyed the video

[@doeharris5363]

I am so glad that you are in the same frame of mind as me. I went back but was so sad and disappointed l have never wanted to return to that beautiful island. 😥😥😥😥🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@rosewiegers7284]

Those were the days my friend & will never see them again, wish i could turn the time back.

[@tomvigar1]

you are so right it is obscene what they have done to what was such a beautiful place

[@mariaxuereb8066]

Those were the days,it's necessary to change but I think we asegerate alot,thanks for the videos you put for us to see

[@tomvigar1]

actually this was taken now nearly 30 years ago those were the times when Sliema was really a beautiful place and it is a jungle of high rise buildings - anyway thank you for your comment

[@mariaxuereb8066]

Thanks alot for these short Maltese views films,how wonderful Malta was without many buildings and cars

[@sharonsammug9751]

Use to go sliema secondry school and to the crash see the kids lovely memories

[@choochoobiyatch3236]

I really wish malta could go back to these days where barely any blocks of apartments were constructed and any cranes were visible.

[@tomvigar1]

you are so right my friend

[@checkchoc]

Thankyou for posting this lovely video.Reminds me of my first ever visit to Malta,20 years ago,and still visiting to this day.

[@robertazzopardi8933]

I was 25,yrs old.. Preluna htel was d highest building... More public spaces.. More double parking.. No traffic caos. . No local wardens.. Less cars.. Not many fast dangerous cars.... Maybe more fumes from old cars and old buses.. But more. Tranquility... Easier living although lower salaries... So overall much better... Wish you all a happy 2021..

[@Flutefriend1]

As a six-year old in 1950 I lived on the third floor of a four-storey block of flats opposite Fortizza fort. It was then the tallest building on Sliema seafront. How things have clearly changed! We used to bathe from a narrow strip of shingle/sand beneath the ancient pier which I see still remains.

[@tomvigar1]

Thanks for comment. Have just come back from Sliema and the change - not necessarily for the better - is immense

[@1976mayday]

My 1st visit to Sliema was 1980, back then Times Square was The Grenadier, I think. Sliema was and is a bit special. I guess time moves on. Great video.

[@coolkid8865]

I walked up Tower Road many times when I lived in Malta, based in St Andrews Barracks we often frequented Sliema for drinks and such. Wonderful memories, I hope to visit Malta this coming summer, beautiful rendition of this song...

[@gregsfilms3986]

Really cool, interesting video. Despite the many changes, I do love Malta as it carries an important place in my heart and I've been noticing the changes that are happening all over the island, but especially in Sliema recently, so seeing what it was like 25 years ago is fascinating!

[@tomvigar1]

you are so right

[@hcaruana]

Life seemed so simple back then. Thanks for posting this one..

[@tonycauchi1891]

Great footage ...will never be the same .....

[@tomvigar1]

thank you

[@mo16222]

Great video! I lived in Tower Road in 82-84 after my parents moved to Malta from Scotland as my Dad was working in Libya..i have wonderful memories of this place! Would love to see more videos if you have them :)

[@tomvigar1]

thanks for your comment, this film was actually shot in 1982. I will see if I can dig out some others

[@patobrien4458]

My wife and I have fond memories of SLiema as our eldest child was born in the Blue Sisters Hospital Sliema in July 1979

[@tomvigar1]

Glad you liked the video and congrats for your son who is now a fully grown man

[@patobrien4458]

Thanks Thomas yes Garret is now 37 yrs and he and his wife have a little girl Ciara 18 months. We recently have started to go back to Malta for family holdiays Back in the 70's I was working in Libya We have such wonderful memories of Malta

[@tomvigar1]

my parents moved to Malta just before the war as my father was in the navy. I was born there before the war broke out - my father died in action and my mother in an air raid. I was brought up by a maltese family and then left Malta in 1959

[@companynothrills]

Wunderbar, auch die musik! war dort im urlaub im hotel metropol, dingli street, zu der zeit - la tigne war noch badefelsen - schöne erinnerung! vielen dank!

[@tomvigar1]

you are right = it is a beautiful place or perhaps, was. Yes I have more footage of Malta for that period and will include soon. Thanks for your comment

[@ClaiMere]

Beautiful place.clean streets.lovelyvideo.

[@tomvigar1]

thanks for your comment

[@maltatourguide8701]

Sliema as I've never seen it before......

[@dwardu]

Il-vera ħadt gost narah, bil-mużika b'kollox :) Grazzi!

[@josbonello]

things have changed in one way but not much in others....your Dad, Walter , should remember this....say hello to him from Joe Bonello

[@tomvigar1]

hello Joe thanks for your msg - my dad died in 1946 so presumably you mean Walter my brother - incidentally do I know you at all? thanks again

[@josbonello]

Hi Thomas ...I just saw your question....you are right...I know your brother Walter ....I was one of the 'clan' at Ghar id Dud in the sixties...say hello to him when you see him

[@mariaxuereb8066]

Ktibt bl ingliz biex jifmuha l barranin,m hinix minn tas sliema,sliema kienet,ghada u tibqa specjali u partikulari

[@Flutefriend1]

We had a lovely nanny called Grace but lost touch with her on our return to the UK. I've long wondered what became of her.

[@riccs93]

1982 or 1983?

[@tomvigar1]

if iO remember rightly it was 1982

[@electricink3908]

Just how I remember it...

[@martinf2750]

Thomas - thanks for video of Sliema. What's the music called? It haunts in a sad and dignified sort of way.

[@tomvigar1]

thanks for message - the music is "all I ask of you' from the phantom of the opera

[@martinf2750]

@@tomvigar1 Many thanks:)

[@lukeportelli2097]

@@tomvigar1 do you know who plays it with a trumpet? Because I can't find this beautiful version anywhere. Thank you 😊

[@tomvigar1]

@@lukeportelli2097 I am sorry my friend but at the moment I cannot remember but will dig deeper and let you kmow asap

[@lukeportelli2097]

@@tomvigar1 thank you😊

[@tomvigar1]

thank you for your comment much appreciated

[@tomvigar1]

thank your for your kind comment

[@dusinfarrugia6072]

Wow manuel dimech street 2 way

[@tomvigar1]

remember this was 32 years ago

[@tomvigar1]

thanks for your kind comment

[@tomvigar1]

thank you for your comment this film was shot in 1989 when Sliema was still beautiful as opposed to now

[@tomvigar1]

thanks for your comment - this was actually taken 30 years ago

[@tomvigar1]

if I remember rightlly it was 1982

[@simonsf9184]

My gosh we were running around with flint stone cars back then ... yes it looked all run down but still nicer than today's high rise extremely overcrowded cities .. i totally avoid these areas these days ... it hurts my eyes its so ugly... looking more and more like hong kong ...