I didn't really know where this subject belongs, since the content could be from anywhere, even around the world, but whenever I come across these, I always feel the need to let others have a look - maybe you might be similarly inspired...

While there aren't thousands, or anything like that, having a photographic connection in the family closet means there are one or two unidentified pics stuffed in boxes, and while I think I've managed to pull any that have a personal connection out of the stack, there's still plenty left that that I don't have a clue about, and are probably just old customer's prints, either printed off as proofs or tests, or never collected and just thrown in boxes.

While there's rather a lot of people portraits and head shots of folk in uniform, none have any info written on them, so are a mystery, as are the rest. Some are taken in Scotland, on holidays or outing, while others are European, and I'd hazard a guess they came from service personnel on the move. The subjects aren't interesting: unknown people, weddings, country roads, hills, castles, houses etc. all unidentifiable unless you happened to belong to the pics.

However, every so often something a bit more interesting crops up, so I might slip them in here if I get the opportunity. Who knows, someone might even recognise the subject.

I'm not going to describe them just post them as found (or rather after a little digital enhancement and correction to make them viewable). And I should add that there is no implied connection between any of them, they're all just sifted out of a big box!

Great stuff. Any idea what the sign above the bunker door in the first pic says?

You see what I see

That particular pic is really only about half the size (quarter of the area) it appears on screen in here.

Looks like this thread is going to be short if no-one else is going/able to come up with anything "found in a box".

A lot of the stuff I see is duplicated, or doesn't look interesting - building works, anonymous and meaningless.

There are a lot of portraits of folk in uniform, but all unidentified, same problem with troops too, nothing identifiable. Some I can see are personal/family, so only of interest to me as I find them, but the rest are of strangers, and may be sweepings from the darkroom floor (we have a photographic background - the studio was off London Road, swept away long ago, and will now be totally erased thanks to this Commonwealth Games nonsense destroying Parkhead).

I can't tell if there are recognisable subjects, as most of what I am looking at is 35 mm neg stick, with some run off as contact strips, but still too small. For example, looking at one strip, it was clear we were in eastern Europe, Germany or Poland possibly, and then the next strip was a pier which turned out to be Dunoon!

I keep threatening to get a proper neg scanner and see what I've got. Shoving a few through a digital camera and reversing them is easy, but slow, and when you have hundreds/thousands, even a scanner means a long job. At least being black & white means forgetting about colour problems.

Maybe one day.