Liverpool Street in the Central City, Christchurch

Liverpool Street – Named after Liverpool, a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England. Named in 1909. First appears in street directories in 1924.A small amount of information from the library website. Huge numbers of entries on Papers Past as it seems like every city in New Zealand had a Liverpool Street. The council when they named the street didn’t give a reason for the name. Over the years there seem to have been at least three garages on this street and in 1929 someone tried to set fire to a petrol pump. The council wanted to give street hawkers permanent stands on Liverpool St but the hawkers declined this. A solicitor C S Penlington had an office here and in 1944 Hammer & Barrow Ltd had offices in a building called Liverpool Chambers. This street no longer exists and it was officially stopped as a street on 8th November 2016. The area where the street used to be is now a grassy area. I couldn’t find out what businesses used to be here but did find a video showing the earthquake happening.