One of the most frequented towns from Malta’s Northern Harbour District, Sliema has undergone some pretty major developments in recent years.

Many are the residents of this urban hub that look back on the town’s early days with glee, sharing old images of Sliema’s most iconic spots and shedding light on its rich history.

Amongst Sliema’s notable streets, Cathedral Street is easily one of the best documented.

For example, Facebook user Salvatore Muscat shared the image below, believed to date all the way back to 1906!

The image depicts an enormous statue of St George slaying a dragon while on horseback, with a crowd on both sides of the street. One can tell that this is, in fact, Cathedral Street because of the columns next to the traditional Maltese balconies found on the right side of the image – which are still around today.

Presumably taken during the 1960s, this next image, uploaded to social media by Ernest Ferrante, highlights a different part of Cathedral Street – where one might recognise St Joseph’s School on the left-hand side. The cars in the image can help to narrow down when this was taken.

The most recent of these images, uploaded by Flickr user Glenn Rasmussen, depicts the same area of Cathedral Street as the image above, where St Joseph's School is pictured. One might recognise the niċċa on top of the school's entrance, dedicated to the school's patron saint, St Joseph himself. This image was taken in 2006, exactly 100 years after St George's statue was captured in that very street!

Do you have any memories of Cathedral Street?

Facebook/Salvatore Muscat & Facebook/Ernest Ferrante & Flickr/Glenn Rasmussen