Danher Chandler Shop

 

 

Danher Chandler Shop

 

 

My gr8gr8 granddad John Danher of Liverpool was an accomplished builder in his last days before he passed away in 1917 of Colon Cancer. He started out as a young lad born in Limerick city , Limerick Ireland, and moved with his family to Durham/York to do mining, while there he married and started his young family and all the while dabbled with iron and steel and was an accomplished pipe fitter and gas fitter, a trade for which alot of his sons followed him in. That was the British and Irish thing to do, do your father's occupation. While in Middlesbrough he was able to experiment with ironmonging and chandlery. He moved his family from there to Liverpool to open shops in the city of Liverpool and continued to have the rest of the family there, 14 more children in fact. His life most spent in Aigburth at his Chandler shop and house on Aigburth road, number 98, pictured above. Even to this day it is a electrical shop a post establishment from the original chandler shop. A chandler shop in Britain is similar to a Hardware Store in North America. Although you did have services in the chandlery, like delivery of oils, gas, petrol, candles, all the needs for heating, lighting and cleaning your homes. John Danher and sons had many shops across Liverpool and they had almost every corner of the city covered for their delivery service for which they did deliver for 362 days of the year , only taking 3 christian days off in the year for non deliveries. In liverpool you will see this building still, it was far away from the docks in a residential area , so it was safe from the bombings of Liverpool during the war. Can you imagine 16 people once lived in that house right on the High Street of Aigburth Road.