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« on: September 28, 2024, 15:16:43 »
My roll of 24 25, processed as a rushed job from yesterday and today, and the prints got dropped.  Can you help me put them back in order please?   Starting from home in Melksham, I am now waiting my return train home at the north of Bristol station with just about the worst possible service

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« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2024, 17:31:45 »
*HARP KLAXON*
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« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2024, 17:54:37 »
Hmm. Roll Eyes

I'm not able to put all of them in sequence, and without reading the various station signs and clues in your pictures (which would be cheating!), I can tell you that 7 is Parson Street, 13 is Bath Spa and 22 is Bedminster.

None of them are Taunton.  Grin
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« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2024, 18:54:50 »
Quote from: Chris from Nailsea on September 28, 2024, 17:54:37
None of them are Taunton.  Grin
Was about to write Taunton does not feature in this batch of photos Chris to save you looking  Grin
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« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2024, 19:46:34 »
Thanks, Timmer - that's a great weight off my mind!  Grin
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« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2024, 20:18:46 »
Just to 'bump' this topic again - 10 is Bristol Temple Meads.  Wink
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« Reply #6 on: September 28, 2024, 21:29:20 »
9.newest of the bunch is Ashley Down.
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« Reply #7 on: September 28, 2024, 21:59:43 »
24 is, I think, taken from Bristol Bridge: I used to work (for 11 years) in the office building (120 Redcliff Street) just off right centre of your picture.  Grin
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« Reply #8 on: September 28, 2024, 22:02:02 »
Are there any younger forum members out there wondering what all this "roll of 25" "chap at Boots" business refers to!
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« Reply #9 on: September 28, 2024, 22:16:32 »
Probably.

They won't know what Gillette razor blades are, either.  Roll Eyes

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« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2024, 23:17:46 »
8 is really annoying me: I should so clearly know that, being a local, but I just can't place it.  Embarrassed
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« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2024, 23:29:33 »
Quote from: grahame on September 28, 2024, 15:16:43

I am now waiting my return train home at the north of Bristol station with just about the worst possible service


Pilning.  Grin
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« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2024, 00:16:39 »
8 looks like the front of Montpelier Station.  Trouble is, the challenge is more fiendish than that as working out the chronological order is something of a headscratcher.... especially after all the heady excitement of the Ashley Down Station opening.
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« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2024, 00:25:32 »
Quote from: eightonedee on September 28, 2024, 22:02:02
Are there any younger forum members out there wondering what all this "roll of 25" "chap at Boots" business refers to!

We had a similar scenario with a 19 year old family member just the other day when I mentioned how people gave greater consideration to and placed greater value on, the pictures that they took when there were "rolls of film" which could take a week or more to get developed. 
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« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2024, 05:47:14 »
Quote from: eightonedee on September 28, 2024, 22:02:02
Are there any younger forum members out there wondering what all this "roll of 25" "chap at Boots" business refers to!

I wondered. And, yes, I am sure there are such members.  These were the days of analogue rather than digital photography, where light was translated to photosensitive chemical reactions using expensive silver on a clear medium which came in a long strip held in a light sensitive cassette that was taken to a chemist to process from a 35mm wide original up to a zoomed size on a specialist machine.
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