Now here is a pub with a history and I rather think a shed load of stories.
After all according to that excellent pub site the Pubs of Manchester “the New Oxford was originally the Town Hall Tavern beer house in the 1850s in what was then Bexley Street, it become the Court Tavern a few years later then the Amateurs Arms in 1871 when it contained a music hall.”*
Later it changed its name again to the Oxford Hotel when Wilsons Brewery acquired it and the four neighbouring shops and cottages.
There is more but for that you will just have to follow the link and read the rest of the story.
I can’t say I have been inside but Peter’s painting has certainly made me want to.
And as we get to the midpoint on the book on Manchester pubs it may well be time to go down there and sample the beer just of course in the interests of historical research and to see how better Salford pull a pint.
Location; Bexley Square Salford
Paintings; the New Oxford, Salford, © 2015, Peter Topping,
Facebook; Paintings from Pictures, Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
Map; Bexley Square, 1844, from Manchester & Salford OS, 1844, courtesy of Digital Archive Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
*The New Oxford, Manchester Pubs, http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/New%20Oxford%20-%20Bexley%20Square
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| The New Oxford, 2015 |
Later it changed its name again to the Oxford Hotel when Wilsons Brewery acquired it and the four neighbouring shops and cottages.
There is more but for that you will just have to follow the link and read the rest of the story.
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| The Town Hall and the pub that became The New Oxford, 1844 |
And as we get to the midpoint on the book on Manchester pubs it may well be time to go down there and sample the beer just of course in the interests of historical research and to see how better Salford pull a pint.
Location; Bexley Square Salford
Paintings; the New Oxford, Salford, © 2015, Peter Topping,
Facebook; Paintings from Pictures, Web: www.paintingsfrompictures.co.uk
Map; Bexley Square, 1844, from Manchester & Salford OS, 1844, courtesy of Digital Archive Association, http://digitalarchives.co.uk/
*The New Oxford, Manchester Pubs, http://pubs-of-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/New%20Oxford%20-%20Bexley%20Square
We frequent this pub most weekends they have a good selection of beers and real ale. It’s now an Irish bar and is always our first port of call before heading into Manchester and china town. There was a riot in the square many years ago that has always fascinated me and itv film scenes inside the courts opposite. We would highly recommend a visit!
ReplyDeleteWell I’ve read i5 all but I still don’t know why it’s called The New Oxford when it’s is Salford. There’s a sign which might be the Earl of Oxford. Did he own land around here?
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