How do I access old iCloud backups?

Hi,
This forum interface is not exactly user intuitive, so I apologize beforehand if this question has been asked hundreds of times already.
I lost my iPhone 4 near the end last year, and purchased a new iPhone 4S to replace it. After using the new iPhone for a couple of months, I've started getting notifications that my iCLoud storage is full, and that I should purchase more storage. When I enter 'Manage Backups' for iCloud, I see that I have two backups - one recent backup that is 1.5GB large, and an old backup that is 3.1GB large. This larger backup was made before I lost my phone, and therefore this is great news - it means I might get back all my old photos and whatever else might be on there. Also, if I can get back those files I want, I can delete the old backup and won't have any problems with running out of storage for a while. Therefore, some questions arise:
1. How do I actually access the old backup? I don't seem to be able to open it in the iCloud site, download it to my hard-drive, or open it with the iCloud utility for Windows. All I want to do is to see which files and materials from the old backup that I would want to salvage, and throw away the rest, but how do I do this? I do not want to overwrite my current phone settings or files, since I've been using the new phone for a few months now and have a lot of new settings, contacts, etc, that I do not want to overwrite. Mostly I'm interested in getting my photos back.
2. If it is not possible to actually access the old backups, why is this? Is there a policy that anyone knows of from Apple? I can't imagine actually buying more storage space in the cloud, as my phone keeps suggesting, if I'm not even given access to the data I back up.
Thanks a lot, and again - sorry if I've restated a question that has already been resolved here.
(I'm running a Windows 7 computer if that's relevant, and the latest iOS on my iPhone 4S)
Thanks,
Henrik

Although more recent, and with newer devices, I have been trying to find this same information. Please help!

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