I passed this photo on to Rod many moons ago now for the main Astonbrook site...VB used it to advertise the Aston site.....I took it from an book published around 1939ish, but I cannot think of its title and where the book is now....in fact I feel that the book fell apart....I am sure on the photo it stated somewhere in Aston....but I do not think its in the Aston we think of, It has to be an inner city area,,,Small Heath, Bordesley, Nechells, etc....the building at the back of the photo, I think could be a school and not a church....its looks higher due to photograph being shot up hill....still haven't a clue where it is.....
ps...I am sure the book had something to do with Cadburys?, if I remember correctly it was only a few pages thick.
it also appears in a booklet "Our Birmingham" printed 1943
pps "Our Birmingham" was printed for Cadburys DOH!