For non-Spanish speakers, ¿qué pasa? is roughly “how’s it going?” or “what’s up?”. Which about sums up where this post is headed.

Always-interesting commenter ‘thespecialone‘ left a reply on the previous thread about visits to the Rock in years gone past which got TheEye a’thinkin’.

There are thousands of photographs of everywhere that are of parochial interest – but some of them deserve a slightly wider audience too. So in the interests of, well, interest…AllSeeingEye offers you from his collection the first of a possibly continued (but if so only very occasionally) series. Gibraltar through the ages.

First up: some dramatic shots from 1940.

And from inside the harbour…

Things weren’t always so peaceful…