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Picture source: Phil Simpson

The Yuticks Nest Inn was situated at 41 Dickinson  Street, closing in 1972.

Source: Max Taylor

Situated on the corner of Dickinson Street and Taylor Street, the Brick Makers Arms, or the Bricklayers Arms as some would have it, was converted into a beer house in 1855, the year after the building was built as a dwelling house. A beer house was different from a fully licensed house; its licenses permitted it to sell only beer and not spirits, whereas a fully licensed house could sell both beer and spirits. The earliest recorded naming of the beer house as Yutick’s Nest was in 1866. In 1903, Daniel Thwaites bought 39 Dickinson Street, the cottage next door, and incorporated it into the pub which enabled alterations to be made to the parlour, scullery, kitchen and toilets. The back yard was also remodelled. In 1972 Dickinson Street was knocked down to make way for a new development and Yutick’s Nest was no more. However the name was not to be lost. In 1973 Daniel Thwaites had paid £13,000 for an acre of land at Pringle Street, part of the Queens Park redevelopment area and in 1975 work started on a building that was to be the new Yutick’s Nest. The pub cost about £105,000 and took less than a year to build opening on Monday December 7th 1976. A yutick, sometimes spelt eutick, is a Whinchat otherwise known as a whin-check or a grass-check.

Phil Simpson

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