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The Ox
Pub - Liverpool Road
 The Ox pub sits on
Liverpool Road across from the MOSI and the Air
& Space Museum. Its web site says this of
the pub, "The Ox is a traditional gastro pub/hotel
serving excellent, modern, English food sourced from
the finest local ingredients. Food is served
in the historic pub where you can enjoy a pint of
traditional cask ale or choose from our hand-picked
wine list. As well as our award-winning food
freshly prepared by our culinary team, our hotel
offers ten stylish en-suite rooms."
One web site claims that the Ox is the only pub in England named after a potato. It is a fact that originally it was called the "Ox Noble Inn", as you can see in this excerpt from the 1844 map of the area.  This raises two
questions. Firstly, why has the pub chosen
a sign that features a bull? Secondly,
since the ox noble potato is described as being,
"large, yellow without and within, very
prolific, not fit to eat," why would a pub want
to be associated with it?
The pub has
attractive etched glass windows at street level.
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