I came across an old ILFORD XP2 film in an old camera I have…years old…no idea what is on it.
Where can I send it to get printed? Did a Google search but only found Uk and Belgium! Anyone still develops films?
It used to be that you could drop them off at a chemists, but these days…probably here.
EDIT: further information
Oh and also here.
Your second link looks particularly useful, but we certainly had (until a couple of months back) a photographer in our local town and they certainly used 35mm film themselves, and also developed it for others,because we talked about it. Of course s*ds law says I found the old camera I’d been looking for with film in after they’d moved to Paris 
However, @Gprit , it might be worth asking a local photographic studio because even if they don’t develop film themselves, they might well know a local firm that does.
Local photographic club?
Certainly worth a go if there is one but likely to be digital these days.
There’s always some traditional member who keeps going in my experience of these type of clubs. Well fingers crossed anyway.
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Up until lockdown Max Speilmann were taking films, but they seem to have stopped now, and several labs have closed too.
Have a look here, the Talk Photography film Dev UK thread.
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/film-developing-in-the-uk.341566/page-45
DS Colour Labs in Manchester will develop your film for you, if you don’t mind posting it to the UK…
They are a long-standing professional lab (I use them for printing my clients’ wedding photos) and I have also had medium format film developed by them.
They do ship prints worldwide so I assume would do the same with developed negs. But you could drop them an email on info@dscolourlabs.co.uk if you want more details.
They will also scan your negs to digital and/or make prints if required.
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'Fraid not Jane. Our club is small and whilst some had their own darkrooms in the past everyone now is digital.
XP2 needs C41 colour process iirc - not so easy for home development these days.
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Thanks all…I’ll send to one of the French sites mentioned…bit loathe to send to Uk given the post there…
Ah…looking at https://www.pellicule-photo.com/ they offer colour development onto a DVD rom disc or (a supplied UBS stick). BUT…for b&W film they ONLY offer to DVD rom disc!!
Companies don’t seem to realise that these days laptops DO NOT come with dvd players!!
Back to the drawing board…wonder what is on the film…
External DVD drives are not much money, its what I have done because internal is as you say rare.
You may well find that they can also upload the images to a file sharing service for download directly. Otherwise Corona’s suggestion is good - we keep a couple of DVD players here for the times when they’re useful (I could also joke about outdated technologies working together! 
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Cheap as chips. Our old-fashioned DVD player attached to the TV in the gite packed in. Couldn’t believe how small / light / cheap modern DVD players are.
I’ve just bought a DVD R/W player off Amazon for £27. It’s unusual because as well as different USB types it does SD & TF cards and in particular, has its own 3.5mm audio out slot.
Had to watch the price cycle/ various discounts for about 8 weeks till the net price returned to the above on .de and .co.uk. During which time the .fr price stayed stubbornly £39 equivalent or so for same item. It’s one of the Nolyth models.
It will do as my 2nd backup type when I dig out some blank DVD’s. And at Christmas I’ll be catching up on Montalbano, Foyle’s War and The Thorn Birds CD that shipped with the machine (I was too young to understand The Thorn Birds first time round so trying again).
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And one of the few that doesn’t need subtitles because they all speak so beautifully. 
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