Navigation Inn Erdington

[Frothblower]

I'm looking for an old photo of the Navigation pub (The Navi)Tyburn road Erdington.
Happy days going there to get me comics and trotch (sweets) off me Dad.

 

[sylviasayers]

Hi Frothblower, the Navigation pub is another that has been turned into a Chinese Restaurant, I haven't been, but have heard good reports on the food.

 

[Frothblower]

Thanks sylviasayers.
Yes I know about it changing, I pass it every day. It just that I've never seen an old photo of the place.
At lest it's still standing, not like the fate of other pubs.

 

[welder]

Hi Frothblower, the Navigation pub is another that has been turned into a Chinese Restaurant, I haven't been, but have heard good reports on the food.

Hi Sylvia, yes, it's a Chinese Restaurant now, Buffet Island, and I can confirm that the food is very good indeed.

I can particularly commend the barman. Last time I was in there I ordered a round of twelve drinks to be consumed whilst waiting for our table. A while later my brother in law went to the bar and asked for the "same again". Unfazed, not only did the barman remember the drinks, he remembered which was for each of us. I'm impressed by that sort of service.

Ian

 

[Phil]

Frothblower is this the one you want. I know its been a long wait.

Phil

 

[davidfowler]

Thanks for that Phil, I lived just down the road from there as a child. Here's a drawing of what is supposed to be the Navi although Frothy doesn't think it is. I suggested it's a "plan" prior to building and so certain details may have been changed when it came to actually putting it up.

 

[john knight]

Wonderful drawing from the Building News, love the fat,pinaford figure(presumably the licensee) standing in the doorway, magic.

 

[Frothblower]

Wonderful drawing from the Building News, love the fat,pinaford figure(presumably the licensee) standing in the doorway, magic.

Thanks Phil, Just what I wanted.
It funny, I look at that building and think what a lovely building.Going there as a kid on Sunday afternoons,I did'nt give the place a second glance. All I wanted was me sweets and comics off me Dad.It was his second home

 

[Annveitch]

I ruined my new boots in the Navigation, mind you it was my own fault through being greedy.

 

[welder]

I ruined my new boots in the Navigation, mind you it was my own fault through being greedy.

Ann, hey, once a village girl......always a village girl. Persuade Colin that you need new ones........and try to avoid wading in the buffet section

Ian

 

[Annveitch]

Welder it wasn,t the buffet i was guzzling down, something a bit more liquid.
You can take the girl out of the village, but you will never take the village out of the girl

 

[Lloyd]

Isn't the 'drawing' the old Navigation pub, which was the other side of the canal before Tyburn Road was built?

 

[davidfowler]

Lloyd, I never thought of that. The only problem is that what I remember from my Grandad who lived a few doors down was that it was quite small compared to the "new" one.
I stand to be corrected though.

 

[Templer]

Here's another old and well loved Erdington pub...The Navigation
Now a chinese restaurant...Buffet Island.
but at least it's still standing.
Brian

 

[roger a]

Here's another old and well loved Erdington pub...The Navigation
Now a chinese restaurant...Buffet Island.
but at least it's still standing.
Brian

hi Brian to the left of these pictures there was a round building dont know what it was always throught it was for horses wonder if you know?Best Wishes Roger

 

[Templer]

hi Brian to the left of these pictures there was a round building dont know what it was always throught it was for horses wonder if you know?Best Wishes Roger

Hi Roger, the building you refer to was in fact to the right of the picture, it is still there but only the walls remain. ( will get a picture later)
I have heard some strange stories of what some people thought it was.
but it was only a very regal kind of summer house with pointed roof and bench seating around the inside and opening out on to what was then, the gardens.
I've spent some hours in there as a youngster waiting for my parents to come out, it was their local. Brian

 

[Frothblower]

Remember this place Brian

 

[Steve.c]

Does anyone knowb what the odd building in the car park is? It's almost circular, I presume it used to be some kind of storage outhouse.

 

[mikejee]

Got a bit confused looking for the round building, as i hadn't realised that sometime between the wars the pub had been resited the opposite side of the canal. On the c1952 map, the building is marked as "shelter", and so presumably is a relic of WW2 which has not been demolished
mike

 

[Steve.c]

Thanks Mikejee, I thought it was quite war like but assumed a bomb shelter would be more 'out of the way'.

 

[dek carr]

Thanks Mikejee, I thought it was quite war like but assumed a bomb shelter would be more 'out of the way'.

Hello Steve I wouldn,t have thought it was a bomb shelter it had a timber roof with tiles on and it looked older than 2nd world war. Dek

 

[mikejee]

Maybe it was modfiied after the war, and the roof removed . I wouldn't have thought just a garden shelter to shelter from the sun and rain would have been named on a map.

 

[Morturn]

I remember that building; it had a high pointed tiled roof, just like a witch’s hat. The front was open, so it may have been just a posh garden shelter for the pub

 

[mike-g]

There was one similar at the Mile Oak. Think it was a garden shelter.

 

[lencops]

The conical buildings were for the rich drinkers to park their horse & trap. Len.

 

[Templer]

There was one similar at the Mile Oak. Think it was a garden shelter.

That's all it was Mike, a posh shelter, spent a lot of time playing in there and in the gardens on weekends waiting for my father whose local was the Navi.

 

[lencops]

The Navigation Inn looking as though it is above Buffet Island but the building below is Lidl`s supermarket, at Acocks Green. Len.

 

[Phil]

Len

I don't understand what you are saying in your last post, because both the upper and lower photos are of the same site. The Dolphin Pub before and after demolition.

Phil

 

[gpops]

The building was used for people who took their children to the pub so the kids had shelter out of the rain but what its original use was like every one else dont know but it did have seats in there

 

[lencops]

Len

I don't understand what you are saying in your last post, because both the upper and lower photos are of the same site. The Dolphin Pub before and after demolition.

Phil

Sorry Phil, my Senior moment mistake, you are correct it is The Dolphin and the Lidl supermarket, the supermarket shares the site with Farmfoods & a pet food shop. Len.