Joseph Barbara ‘Il-Mast’ – A prominent figure during St George’s glory years
An article published in The Times of Malta on 10th March 2005
The footprints of life's path
An article published in The Times of Malta on 10th March 2005
This post I have found on Cospicua Heritage Society. History are just records but reading it I could imagine more this event. An organised Charity Match between the Navy and St. George’s players – I can imagine my Grandpa organising the event with the Admiral. He was the chief messenger of the Admiral so they …
This is a press cutting published in 1966 when my grandpa was 85 years of age. It was report relating to a programme aired the day before “Sports Panorama” and focused on what my grandpa recounted of the early years of football.
Another post in Malta and International Football Collection fb group that mentions my grandpa, Joseph Barbara.
It is not exactly a memory but living close to where my grandpa used to live and as a child going almost every day to his beautiful old house in St Gregory Street in Zejtun, so many memories come to mind when I think of my grandpa but three significant sides of his past so …
This morning a post on facebook drew my attention, from my dearest husband Noel, 46 years since he laid eyes on me. So it’s 46 years knowing my dearest companion of life, Noel. He is nowhere like me, the complete negative, me the extrovert open book and he, withdrawn with the least words possible and …
Mother’s Day – 2015, a day that will be bound to my heart as always. A yearly celebration to honour mothers, a normal gift given to me by my dear son Ian but nowadays a treasure that no value can be put to it. Ian’s last gift to me, Ian’s last Mother’s day with me. …