Norris Green shops were once somewhere where people travelled to shop. In the late 50s and the 60s my Mother regularly took the bus from Fazakerley (the Kirkby end of it) to "Broadgreen shops" as she called it. It seemed massive and, astonishingly, quite exotic to us Fazakerley plebs, who did not have a Woolies or a purpose built baths or, for that matter, a dedicated shopping arcade of a similar size. My Mum was a particular fan of the fruit shops; there seemed to be hundreds of them. My friend longed to live over the shops in the arcade. Those flats were, in those days, highly desirable. My, how things have changed.