Malta during the war! Incredible silent newsreel footage from British Pathé offers a fascinating insight into life in Valletta in 1942 | Bay Retro

St Paul's Bay on film! Incredible footage shows what life in 1950s Malta was really like 📍 St Paul's Bay, Malta 🎥 Alessandro Bajada | Bay Retro

Marsaxlokk on film! Rare footage shows what life in Malta was like in the 1950s 📍 Marsaxlokk, Malta 🎥 Alessandro Bajada | Bay Retro

For seven thousand years, Malta has stood at the crossroads of the Mediterranean—shaped, claimed, defended, and reinvented by every civilisation that set eyes on its shores. From the first Neolithic farmers who carved temples older than the pyramids, to Phoenician traders, Roman governors, Arab scholars, medieval knights, and modern nations, each chapter has left its mark on these islands. This is the story of how a tiny archipelago became a tapestry of worlds, cultures, and legacies—layered sto