Can anyone identify this Atkinsons public house please.

[algybarton]

Can anyone identify this Atkinsons public house please, I believe it to be on the Walsall Canal possibly south of Moxley and north of the Tame Valley Junction.

 

[Pedrocut]

Never seen the pub from that side but the shape of the pub reminded me of a pub in Holloway Bank. Not there now though.
[there is a lock just before the bridge on the canal. Its not the one I was thinking about, so we will have to look along the canal.]

 

[Vivienne14]

Is this list any help ? Viv.

 

[oldMohawk]

Can anyone identify this Atkinsons public house please, I believe it to be on the Walsall Canal possibly south of Moxley and north of the Tame Valley Junction.

This building has possibilities although not enough chimneys ... it looks like a pub

It's location is Ryders Green Road West Bromwich by the canal bridge.

 

[oldMohawk]

On a list of Atkinsons Pubs it is named as the Eight Locks, Ryders Green Road, West Bromwich. It still has the name but not Atkinsons

 

[oldMohawk]

This aerial view dated 1937 shows the pub. The buildings by the canal lock seem to match the buildings shown in post#1

image source 'britainfromabove'

 

[algybarton]

Never seen the pub from that side but the shape of the pub reminded me of a pub in Holloway Bank. Not there now though.
[there is a lock just before the bridge on the canal. Its not the one I was thinking about, so we will have to look along the canal.]

Thank you for your reply Pedrocut.

 

[algybarton]

Is this list any help ? Viv.

Thank you Vivienne for your reply the list of pubs is excellent.

 

[algybarton]

On a list of Atkinsons Pubs it is named as the Eight Locks, Ryders Green Road, West Bromwich. It still has the name but not Atkinsons
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Thank you oldMohawk, spot on and a cracking piece of detective work. with your help I found the area on Britain from above.

 

[algybarton]

Eight Locks Inn on Ordnance Survey Map.

 

[algybarton]

Working narrowboats passing through the lock by the Eight Locks public house at Ryders Green, West Bromwich.

 

[oldMohawk]

My 'detective work' consisted of following the Tame Valley canal from Great Barr using apple maps on my iPad until I came to a lock by a bridge with a building on the left on the other side of the bridge ...

 

[algybarton]

My 'detective work' consisted of following the Tame Valley canal from Great Barr using apple maps on my iPad until I came to a lock by a bridge with a building on the left on the other side of the bridge ...
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Brilliant!. My interest for the midland area and it's canals stems from my great grandfather coming from the Harborne area in the late 19th century when he brought his family to Warrington to obtain work in a steel mill and as I was born and live in the Warrington area my knowledge of the midlands is very limited.