Elizabeth Christian (1898 – 1977)
Artist : Sarah-Jane Richards
Location: Whitechapel
Born by Brownlow Hill and the eldest of twelve; ‘Lizzie’ brought up seven children and was a legendary flower seller in Clayton Square trading six days a week for more than 60 years.
On Sundays you’d also find her outside the old Newsham General Hospital, in Belmont Road.
http://www.liverpooldiscovers.co.uk/2011/01/liverpool-great-lizzie-christian/
Christian family’s Bold Street fruit and veg market to be torn down
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/02/27/christian-family-s-bold-street-fruit-and-veg-market-to-be-torn-down-100252-25924065/
'I will fight on for our family and for my dad'Bold Street traders report slump in trade after closure of popular fruit and veg stall, but it's not over yet for the Christians...Published on October 20th 2010.
http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/News-and-Comment/I-will-fight-on-for-our-family-and-for-my-dad
my pictures from today:
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http://www.ludusbar.co.uk/#A MUCH-LOVED city centre market stall is to close.
The family-run Bold Street fruit and veg stall will open for the last time today.
It will stay shut while the metal shack it is run from is torn down.
But its owners vowed today they will return to the spot and carry on selling produce from temporary stalls.
The Christian family, who rent the metal shack at 108 Bold Street from ex-crime boss Philip Glennon, have run markets in the city for more than 125 years.
They moved to the Bold Street shack in 2002 after a brief spell on Renshaw Street. But planning permission for it ran out in 2004.
Since then Liverpool City Council has been trying to have it torn down.
Last year the ECHO revealed Mr Glennon, who was once one of the country’s most wanted crooks, was on the cusp of taking the case to a public inquiry to try to save the building – but he withdrew his appeal at the last minute. Now the council has given Mr Glennon until March 10 to rip it down.
