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Can you make sense of this

Phil

Phil

Gone, but not forgotten.
Can anybody make sense of the statement at the bottom of this photo. Has it got any factual meaning that I am unaware of. Or is it just another piece of misinformation that these pictorial history books seem to be full of. I have seen this photo before and I think I may have even posted it on the Gosta Green thread. But this is the first time I have seen this caption.

Phil

23/11/11 Sorry but I did not keep a copy of the original photo with its caption as it would have duplicated this one that I have used to replace it.

GostaGreenCadwallersBakeryAstonSt-ReedsOpening1932-1.jpg
 
Hello Phil strange contradiction of locations i wonder if it,s White Lion Passage that,s the only lane i can remember of Aston St. Dek
 
Very strange, Phip. The writer seems to be describing the northern end of Worcester Street or Phillips Street (B5). There was also a Phillips Street in B6 (Aston). So is he or she confusing the city's two Phillips Streets? David
 
Dave and Dek

I have a much better version of the same photo and the location is Cadwallers Bakery next to Reeds Opening Aston St, Gosta Green. So the author of this statement who is well known for this type of book and usually gets it right. Has got the location right but its his geographical statement that puzzles me, because I can't connect this area with what he is saying or the other locations.

Phil
 
Phil, the only thing I can think of is that the author has confused Digbeth and Dale End around Straford St and Old Cross St area...
 
Chris

That is the only conclusion that I can come to, but you would think that the money that some of them make from compiling the photographic books they would take more care.

Phil
 
Phil where abouts was Reeds Passage did it go from one street to another or was it no through passage i don,t remember it. Dek
 
Dek
Cadwallader's is shown in red on the map. You can see the opnening just led to a yard
Mike
 
Thanks Mike i have no recollection of this corner of Aston St prior to Gosta Green Tec being built .The other side i remember quite well probably because it lasted a couple of years longer.Dek
 
Yes Dek, as Mike has pointed out Reeds Passage led to a yard and was at the side of the bakery at 98 Aston St. Which as you know now lies beneath Gosta Green Tech or Aston Uni as it now is.

Phil
 
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