Can I recover photos no longer in my photo stream

I was recently travelling in the USA and my iPad was showing a lack of storage space despite there being plenty, I went to the Apple store in downtown SAN FRANCISCO and it was decided we could reset it which would wipe everything but the photos I had already taken in Yosemite were already on my iPhone thanks to Photo Stream, what I failed to realise was that because Photostream is constantly updating and has a limit of 1000 photos, my photos which I had failed to save from the stream would disappear furhter into my trip, I AM LEFT WITH ONLY THOSE PHOTOS I put into a WEB Archive. Does any body know if I can recover my lost photos or are they lost in the CLOUD forever

what I failed to realise was that because Photostream is constantly updating and has a limit of 1000 photos, my photos which I had failed to save from the stream would disappear furhter into my trip,
So you did not import the photos from the Photo Stream to your iPhone? If the Photo Stream has not been automatically downloaded to a device, there is no way to retrieve the streamed photos that are no longer in iCloud. The Photo Stream is only a temporary buffer for downloading, not a permanent cloud storage.
You could try data recovery tools to recover the photos from your iPhone, but that will be expensive with uncertain success. It will largely depend on how much mememory your iPhone has.  I never tried any of the iPhone data recovery tools.

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