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The Nicholson’s Arms, [was located
at] 16 Lancashire Hill, on the corner of Penny Lane, which dated to the
1820s. The name comes from an influential Heaton Norris family. One early
notable landlord, according to the 1834 Stockport Directory, was John Dodge
whose relatives emigrated to America from Offerton in the 17th century and
who, it is believed, gave their name to Dodge City, Kansas. At one time
there was brewing on site as, in the 1850s, the Nicholson’s Arms was listed
in rate books as a ‘house with a brewery’. The original inn was remodelled
in the middle of the nineteenth century and in 1886 became part of Frederic
Robinson’s expanding estate of houses. It was conveniently located close to
Stockport, just a short distance from the Lower Hillgate brewery. Our photo
shows the pub as it was in 1963, but the old soon made way for the new. With
the programme of housing redevelopment in the area in the later 1960s, the
Victorian pub was demolished. It was replaced by a new mid-century designed
house, set back further from the road in the shadow of the newly constructed
Lancashire Hill tower blocks. The new pub was light and spacious, with a
central bar and two large rooms. It was popular with beer drinkers, being
the only Stockport pub to be listed among the 300 pubs in the first Good
Beer Guide in 1974. It finally closed in 2007 and was converted into retail
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