Norris Green

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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 Croxteth Park Hall. He donated the land on the provison that no public houses were to be built within the estate. There remain no pubs inside the estate to this day. The area is defined by a number of major thoroughfares. These are: the East Lancashire Road to the North, Dwerryhouse Lane to the East, Muirhead Avenue to the South and by Queens Drive to the South West. Homes on the periphery and on main routes through the estate are largely brick built, with those on minor routes are of concrete construction. It is this latter 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.

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

[edit] 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.

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