'I took over an idyllic Staffordshire village pub after being made redundant from my engineering job - when one door closes another opens'
It's a pub which is blessed by its location, sitting alongside a canal and rolling countryside, and is run by a landlord who made a career change following redundancy and discovered a job he loved.
Sometimes, a pub is lucky with its location and the type of view and experience that people can have when they visit.
It can be through being based near a busy population centre, being the first or last stop into a town or city or, in the case of the Boat Inn in Gnosall, being set in an idyllic countryside setting.
The pub is set on Quarry Lane in the village on the Staffordshire and Shropshire border and looks out over the Shropshire Union Canal and miles of rolling countryside on Bridge 34 of the canal.
It was originally a horse staging post for fly-boats on the Shropshire Union canal, with Mary Roscoe in 1896 and John Roscoe in 1900 recorded as licensees and brewers at the pub.
Now owned and run by Marston's, the Boat Inn is managed by landlord Jake Greenaway, who took over the management of the pub in March after making the decision to go into the pub trade after being made redundant from his previous role.
He said: "I'm originally from Cannock and my life snowballed a little bit last September when I was made redundant from my job as a quality engineering welding inspector.
