Sliema was once an idyllic seaside town with rows of beautiful townhouses adorning its coastline, however in recent years it has transformed into a business and leisure area, with multiple high-rise apartment blocks erected.

Once a welcome development, a 1968 newspaper clipping titled "Another hotel in Sliema" highlights the need for an economy boost in post-WWII Malta: "In a contract published by Government Notary Victor Miller, Sliema Hotel Ltd. has been granted £7,000 in aid to build a hotel with 110 beds, in a project costing around £95,450," the article reads.

When inflation is taken into account, the total cost of the project would have totalled just under two million Euros in today's money. The grant was approved by the UK's Ministry of Overseas Development.

The hotel is today still in operation, and is found along Sliema's The Strand, a short distance by walk away from the city centre.

Do you remember Sliema looking like that?