| | Walking to... Sliema & her neighbours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Contrary to its present state, the locality we now know as Sliema was once a quiet retreat, the ideal 'summer residence' of people hailing from Malta's more urbanised areas of the ninteenth century; principally the areas around the Grand Harbour. |
 | | As the area flanks one of Malta's two main harbours, where British warships sheltered during World War Two, a fiery rain of destruction poured upon Sliema and its neighbours; the same ill fate shared by all harbour towns in Malta between 1940 and 1943. |
 | | We speak of the general 'area' when we treat the history of this locality because none of the towns we find today actually existed at the start of the 19th century and so, without today's council boundaries, the place was one broad estate, without distinction, mostly field and rock, sharing one fate. |
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