Christian family’s Bold Street fruit and veg market to be torn down

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.

BUSINESSES at the top end of Bold Street say they are suffering a big slump in trade since the closure of the popular Christians fruit and veg stall, which has seen its sick owner “fall down in sadness and despair”, according to his daughter.

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Scouse Characters - Lizzie Christian

Lizzie Christian was a legend in Liverpool for more than 60 years, selling flowers from her pitch in the city centre. She was there from 9 - 6, six days a week, and on Sundays you'd find her outside the old Newsham General Hospital, in Belmont Road.

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This cafe promises to be nice and cozy, but can not replace such abeloved and desired vegetable market.

two comments from Liverpool ECHO

weloveboldstreet wrote: 

As students of University of Liverpool, we've been loyal customers to the fruit and veg market on Bold Street for 3 years and we love it. We love the so called 'shack', we love the lady who wears the wacky hat and the prices which walk all over Tesco. We love everything about it! 6 peppers for a pound, at our local favourite and 81p each at Tesco!

  sapo123 wrote: 

How ironic that in the council's so-called "Year of the Environment" and with all the money being pumped into promoting healthy eating, they have half crushed a local family business that:

a) Sold fresh produce that was not all smothered in plastic

b) Sold fresh produce at a reasonable, family friendly price 

c) Presumably bought it from a local wholesaler

On top of all this the Bold Street market was - and hopefully long continues to be - an important buffer against monolithic retail carpetbaggers such as Tesco and Asda.