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Belle Vale is a district of Liverpool. The area shares borders with Huyton, Netherley, Gateacre and Childwall, and is home to a large shopping centre.

Over one-thousand prefabricated homes were erected in Belle Vale between the years 1945-1947 in order to provide affordable rented accommodation for people whose homes were destroyed in bombing raids on the city during World War II, thus making it one of the largest Prefab communities in the country.[1]

Its most famous ex-resident is Sir Terry Leahy, chief executive of Tesco, the UK's biggest supermarket chain. Leahy is also President of the Belle Vale Prefab Project.[2]

The postcode for Belle Vale is L25, which is also the postcode for nearby Woolton.

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City of Liverpool
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Aigburth | Allerton | Anfield | Belle Vale | Broadgreen | Canning | Childwall | Clubmoor | Croxteth | Dingle | Dovecot | Edge Hill | Everton | Fairfield | Fazakerley | Garston | Gateacre | Grassendale | Hunts Cross | Kensington | Kirkdale | Knotty Ash | Mossley Hill | Netherley | Norris Green | Old Swan | St Michael's Hamlet | Speke | Stoneycroft | Toxteth | Tuebrook | Walton | Wavertree | West Derby | Woolton
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Allerton & Hunts Cross | Anfield | Belle Vale | Central | Childwall | Church | Clubmoor | County | Cressington | Croxteth | Everton | Fazakerley | Greenbank | Kensington & Fairfield | Kirkdale | Knotty Ash | Mossley Hill | Norris Green | Old Swan | Picton | Princes Park | Riverside | Speke Garston | St Michaels | Tuebrook and Stoneycroft | Warbreck | Wavertree | West Derby | Woolton | Yew Tree
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Huyton

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Netherley may refer to:
  • Netherley, Liverpool, an area in England
  • Netherley, Scotland, a village in Aberdeenshire

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Gateacre

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Childwall

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Sir Terry Leahy (born 28 February 1956) is the CEO of Tesco, the largest British supermarket chain. He was knighted in 2002, and was Chancellor of UMIST, his alma mater, from that year until 1 October 2004 when he became co-chancellor of the newly formed University of Manchester.
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'Tesco'

Public (LSE:  TSCO )
Founded 1919 by Jack Cohen
Headquarters Cheshunt, England, UK

Key people Jack Cohen (founder),
Sir Terry Leahy (Chief Executive)
Industry Retail
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Woolton

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Aigburth

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Canning, is district of Liverpool, England, bounded to the south by Upper Parliament Street, to the east by Grove Street, to the north by Myrtle Street and to the west by Pilgrim Street and Hope Street.
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Childwall

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Clubmoor is an area in the city of Liverpool, north-west England and a Liverpool City Council Ward.

Until 1960 it was served by Clubmoor railway station.

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Croxteth

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Everton is a district of Liverpool, Merseyside and a Liverpool City Council Ward. It consists of mainly council houses, generally more modern terraced homes and is statistically one of the most deprived areas of the city. The football club Everton F.C.
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Fairfield is an area of Liverpool encompassing streets between Tuebrook and Kensington and stretching to Old Swan. It consists of mainly terraced houses and the Victorian Newsham Park, for which the area is notable. It is paired with Kensington to form a Liverpool City Council Ward.
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Fazakerley IPA: [fæzækəli] is a suburb of north Liverpool, England, and a Liverpool City Council Ward.

In 1321, Fazakerley was described as such: "the country is extremely flat and treeless, with nothing to recommend
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Gateacre

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Grassendale

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Hunts Cross

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Kirkdale is a district of Liverpool, England and a Liverpool City Council Ward. It is a primarily working class area, consisting of mainly Victorian terraced houses. From 1885 to 1983 it was part of the Liverpool Kirkdale constituency.
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Knotty Ash

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Mossley Hill

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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.
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Old Swan is an inner-city area of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It is located fairly centrally in the city, bordered by Stoneycroft, Dovecot, Broadgreen, Edge Hill and Fairfield and Wavertree.
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St Michael's Hamlet is a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside. It is located to the south of the city, bordered by Dingle, Mossley Hill and Aigburth. Some of it's most famous residents included the Arends family that ran a local shop in the Hamlet.
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Speke

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Stoneycroft is an area of inner-city Liverpool, England and part of the Tuebrook and Stoneycroft and Old Swan wards.

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  • Church of St Paul


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