A view up a side street in Valetta, Malta. The photographer is standing on Triq Sant Orsla looking north west up the street. 7 men and 1 woman are ascending the steps from the foreground to the middle ground. A men is up a ladder three quarters of the way up the stairs. A sculpture of a religious figure holding a baby outside a church named 'Prowincja św. Pawła Apostoła Zakonu Braci Mniejszych na Malcie' is at the bottom of the street in the foreground. This is Slide 38 of a series of slides detailing Captain H. Bird's service as Watchkeeping Officer for the cable ship John W. Mackay (1922) owned by Commercial Cable Company of London from 16 December 1974 to 21 March 1975. This series consists of 45 slides.