Notable References in Popular Culture
- Norfolk Green was used as the main setting in 1980s Yorkshire Television dramas The Beiderbecke Tapes and The Beiderbecke Connection. There were also several other scenes shot in the Chapel Allerton area. Using an end terrace house on Norfolk Green as the main setting, replacing a house that had been used on Abbeydale Oval in Kirkstall.
- The Yorkshire Television series Fat Friends was in part filmed around Chapel Allerton as well as other nearby suburbs such as Kirkstall, Headingley and Moor Grange.
- The Channel 4 series Sirens was in part filmed on Victoria Street.
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