History

Norris Green is a large housing estate and council ward in Liverpool, England comprising some 1,500 dwellings, it is locally known as "Noggsy". It was built in the 1920s on land donated to the city by Lord Derby, who was at the time resident at nearby Knowsley Hall. He donated the land on the provision that no public houses were to be built within the estate. There remain no pubs inside the estate to this day. An Estate (or housing estate) (mostly UK) refers to a defined area of housing, usually in a common style or built during the same period. ... A ward is an electoral district used in local politics, most notably in England, Scotland, and Wales, as well as Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and many cities in the United States and the federal district of Washington, DC. Wards are usually named after neighbourhoods... For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The 1920s is a decade that is sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or the Roaring Twenties, usually applied to America. ... Stanley on the cover of Time, 1930 Edward George Villiers Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby KG , PC, GCB, GCVO, TD (4 April 1865–4 February 1948) was an English politician around the turn of the 20th century. ... Knowsley Hall is the ancestral home of the Earls of Derby. ... An amusingly named pub (the Old New Inn) at Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswold Hills of South West England A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada...

Geography

The area is defined by a number of major thoroughfares. These are: the East Lancashire Road ;and a small portion of Walton Hall Avenue near The Crown junction; to the North. Lowerhouse Lane and Dwerryhouse Lane to the East, Muirhead Avenue to the South, by Queens Drive to the South West and Townsend Avenue along with Scarisbrick Road to the West. The A580, East Lancashire Road universally known as the East Lancs Road was built to to provide better access to the Port of Liverpool for East Lancashire and Manchester. ...

The area is bordered by Walton to the North-West and West, Fazakerley to the North, Croxteth to the North East and East, West Derby to the South and Clubmoor to the South-West

Housing

Homes on the periphery (outer edge) of the estate and on the main routes through the area are largely brick and well-built, with those on minor routes and residential roads are of concrete construction. It is this concrete group of housing which is considered defective.

The estate was subject to large scale upgrading and renovation in the early 1970s, when still largely under local council ownership. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ...

A number of new homes are planned to be constructed on derelict land cleared following the demolition of defective houses on the "Boot Estate".

Gangs

In recent years, Norris Green has become synonymous with gang violence^[1]. This perception of Norris Green as a hotbed of gang activity was illustrated with the death of local gang leader Liam Smith, whose death led to parts of Norris Green being closed down for the passing of his funeral cortege, The People newspaper reported that following Smith's death, a street in Norris Green had been: "turned into a shrine" for his passing.^[2] The People, formerly known as the Sunday People, is a British red-top Sunday-only newspaper, owned by the Trinity Mirror Group. ...

Famous People

• Ian McCulloch, lead singer of the prominent Liverpool band Echo & the Bunnymen grew up on Parthenon Drive in Norris Green. Also, a track from their 2006 album Siberia is titled Parthenon Drive.
• Steve Coppell, former Manchester United football player and current manager of Reading was born here.

Former Everton player and Manchester City manager Joe Royle was also from the area. Ian McCulloch (born Ian Stephen McCulloch on 5 May 1959, in Liverpool) is an English singer best known for his work with Echo & the Bunnymen. ... Echo & the Bunnymen are an English post-punk group, formed in Liverpool in 1978. ... Siberia is a studio album by Echo & the Bunnymen. ... Stephen James Coppell (born 9 July 1955 in Norris Green, Liverpool) is the manager of Reading Football Club. ... Manchester United Football Club are a world-famous English football club, based at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and are one of the most popular sports clubs in the world, with over 50 million supporters worldwide. ... Reading Football Club are an association football club, based in the English town of Reading, in Berkshire. ...

Croxteth is a suburb of Liverpool, on Merseyside and a Liverpool City Council Ward. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ...

External links

• Council Ward profile
• Norris Green: Images of Liverpool 11
• Article on Norris Green from Liverpool's 'Nerve' magazine
• Norris Green Liverpool: Ongoing picture archive of streets before, during & after rebuild

Actor Geoffrey Hughes was born in Norris Green.