Have I lost my old photos forever?

So this seems to have come up in various forms but I haven't found an answer as yet. Basically I have all my photos backing up to icloud from various devices and has been for a couple of years now. My photostream is only 1000 photos long which puts me back to about may of this year but how do I find photos from before then? Specifically photos from my old iphone (which I no longer own)? I have 2 x ipad 2s, 1 iphone 5s and a windows laptop (sorry). As far as I see they are gone forever and Apple don't seem to have plans for being able to access all photos.
Was I stupid to assume that content backed up to icloud could be retreavable?

Unfortunately, I suppose that most of your pictures are not retreavable. After downloading/uploading your photos and other data which is currently on your device to another cloud service (Dropbox for files/photos or Flickr for photos) or a Mac/PC, you could try to retrieve some of your photos by completely restoring your device from a backup (Settings > General > Reset > ...). But if you asking me, I personally do not expect that you can get a lot of pictures back using this method, which unfortunately seems the only one.

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I had hooked my new iphone 4s up to itunes. I did not read what they were asking correctly, which was to "set up as a new iphone": or "restore backup." i choose restore backup, and now it looks like my iphone 3g. I lost all my photos from my iphone 4s, text messages, bookmarks, notes, emails, basically everything important. So i want to know how to put it back to normal, how it was on my iphone 4s. Please help, i lost alot of information.

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Hello everyone,
I have upgraded to Yosemite and also iPhoto, but when I open iPhoto I don't have any photo!!
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Missing old photos

dear all,
please help. I have some how lost my old photos that were on my photo stream. I have tried an expensive app that did not work. the photos were over 18 months old and I cant find how to increase the album past 18 months. there is one photo i am desperate to get back as it is of our cat that was run over and it is the only nice photo i have of him!
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