Unknown film (type 127)

This is a true "mystery" film. There are no identifications on the film itself or the backing paper that could point to its manufacturer, type, speed or production year. The sticky label at the end of the backing paper simply says "Exposed | Name ... | Address ... | City ...".

The film was developed in Barry Thornton's two bath developer for 4.5 minutes in bath A and 4.5 minutes in bath B at 20 °C. Fifteen 3x4 cm frames were recovered from this roll (out of possible 16). The images at the end of the roll were heavily fogged but the rest preserved fairly well. There is a lot of grain in the images which could be due to the film stock itself or degradation of the emulsion.

The whole roll was shot from one position. With bit of research the location and the event were identified. This was Tulip Time Festival held annually in Holland, Michigan, USA since 1929. There's a shop sign "Holland Shoes", one of the floats has "Holland Furnace" on its side and "Welcome Holland Mich." above it. "Meyer Music" is a business in Michigan that was running for decades and still has a shop in Holland. Hope College was first opened in Holland in 1851. The date 1847 on the float must refer to the time Holland community was settled. Unfortunately, the other date is not easy to read, but it could be 1957. Is it the year the photograph was taken?

This image on Flickr was taken from almost the same location in 1967. By that time the Model Drug Store had a different sign compared to the image at Holland Museum taken in 1947 during the Centennial parade.

The old buildings are still there, on West 8th Street in Holland. The photographs were taken from the south side of the street near number 28, now occupied by Windmill restaurant. The street was narrowed and trees were planted a few decades ago, they grew tall since then.

It would be interesting to know how this film ended up in the UK. Are these holiday snapshots that were forgotten in the camera for decades?