The chap at Boots dropped my prints - can you put them in order?

[whole diary]

[grahame]

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.

Number 8 is indeed Montpelier.   Yes, the challenge is a fiendish one.  I started at home, and posted from Shirley's where the train I had arrived on had just shut its engines down.  In order to make the first public train to Ashley Down, I stayed close to the main Bristol station it started from, and from there took a couple of excursions the afternoon before through the 'burbs - first to the south and second to the north, then as it got dark took a walk into the city.

AFTER  the quiz was posted I took a walk along the beach and though the countryside to what is now a remote spot about which I will post in a. few minutes - but obviously that's not in the pictures that "got dropped".

[Western Pathfinder]

Interested to hear what you make Of Pilning Station&the service or lack of Grahame.

[grahame]

Interested to hear what you make Of Pilning Station&the service or lack of Grahame.

Great minds ... I have been doing an major update / base article
http://www.firstgreatwestern.info/29221

If you want to experiment reading it on your phone ...
https://www.greatwesternrailway.info/r29221.html

[Red Squirrel]

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.

Period Fireplaces Ltd, who are based at Montpelier Station, store their slate and marble in a compound they have created in front of the rather war-torn remnants of the station building. They are very good at repairing old fireplaces and hearths, though these days a lot of their work revolves around wood-burners.

[Red Squirrel]

Since I was merely confirming the identity of 8, I’m now going to put in a bid for 5 being Lawrence Hill (Damien’s rather louche brother). Hopefully these steps will be replaced soon under an Access for All scheme; they’re awkward enough if you’re able-bodies!

[grahame]

Since I was merely confirming the identity of 8, I’m now going to put in a bid for 5 being Lawrence Hill (Damien’s rather louche brother). Hopefully these steps will be replaced soon under an Access for All scheme; they’re awkward enough if you’re able-bodies!

The young lady with the harp was - demonstrably she showed - able bodied.  I would agree though that those steps should soon be replaced. That will make it so much easier for people transporting harps by train, which is a part of "all" in "access for all" which we so rarely consider.

Note for all - I have NOT put a "one go each" on this set of pictures; in some ways the opposite as I'm asking you to put them into some semblance of order!

[stuving]

8 is really annoying me: I should so clearly know that, being a local, but I just can't place it. 

... and 14, Chris?

[Chris from Nailsea]

That would have been rather too obvious for me to offer an answer 

[stuving]

Even given information about some of the mysterious moving about involved, I'm not sure the question as posed is answerable, at least where going out and back via the same route is involved. However, with more than half the places named, I'll have a stab at sequencing those (all at stations except *):

23. Melksham*
13. Bath Spa
5. Lawrence Hill
21. Filton Abbey Wood
17. Bedminster
7. Parson Street
19. Parson Street
14. Nailsea & Backwell
24. Bristol*
10. Bristol Temple Meads
9. Ashley Down
3. Stapleton Road
4. Portway park & ride
8. Montpelier
16.St Andrews Road
12. Severn Beach
6. Severn Beach*

[eightonedee]

Can you help me put them back in order please?

I have just realised! The correct answer is "Yes Grahame. If you look at the small folder that they handed to you at Boots, you will see that there's another pocket on the opposite side to the one from which you dropped the prints, where you will find the negatives in a sheet, sheets or strips which show you what order you took them in" 

[Mark A]

Always strange (to me at least) to reflect that its negative** was physically present when a photo was taken.

Mark

**For various values of 'Negative'. 'Daguerrotype' enters the chat.

[grahame]

Can you help me put them back in order please?

I have just realised! The correct answer is "Yes Grahame. If you look at the small folder that they handed to you at Boots, you will see that there's another pocket on the opposite side to the one from which you dropped the prints, where you will find the negatives in a sheet, sheets or strips which show you what order you took them in" 

Oh yes ...

[grahame]

Even given information about some of the mysterious moving about involved, I'm not sure the question as posed is answerable, at least where going out and back via the same route is involved. However, with more than half the places named, I'll have a stab at sequencing those (all at stations except *):

23. Melksham*
13. Bath Spa
5. Lawrence Hill
21. Filton Abbey Wood
17. Bedminster
7. Parson Street
19. Parson Street
14. Nailsea & Backwell
24. Bristol*
10. Bristol Temple Meads
9. Ashley Down
3. Stapleton Road
4. Portway park & ride
8. Montpelier
16.St Andrews Road
12. Severn Beach
6. Severn Beach*

Only one - No. 6 - is wrong; I mislead you because I had stopped for another Coffee too.  The picture shows a correct test of my software geolocation work.

1, 2, 11, 15, 18, 20, 22 and 25 yet to identify!

A lot of doubling back and forth - will fill you in on the real order if I can remember later!

[Chris from Nailsea]

1. ... is also Nailsea & Backwell. 

Is 22 not Bedminster, then? 

[grahame]

1. ... is also Nailsea & Backwell. 

Is 22 not Bedminster, then? 

No. 1 - yes - Nailsea. 
No. 22 IS Bedminster, yes - I had taken Stuving's list to check against  - best go back through the rest of the thread