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Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by Norman on 23/3/2025, 10:44 am

My dad Billy Dunn was born in Lyon St 1922 and started at the Quay Board School 1927. A class mate he often mentioned was Billy Dann who years later had a Fish n chip Shop in Charles St.
The Teacher used to call them Dunn & Dann
I wonder if Billy Dann's family are still around ?
I'm wondering because I've never see their class photo & the Dann family could just be the family who have one.
Anyone know if they are still around?

Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by Maria Ratheram on 23/3/2025, 11:26 am, in reply to "Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?"

Remember a miss Jardine something in my mind her sister marrying someone from the fish shop Danns many years ago in the mid sixties.

Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by Sheila on 23/3/2025, 11:31 am, in reply to "Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?"

I remember one of the brothers had a daughter, Beryl Dann. I think she married Stanley Beck, whose parents had the shop on the corner of Victoria Road West and Farm Road Hebburn.

Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by AJG on 23/3/2025, 1:05 pm, in reply to "Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?"

After his chip shop owning days, Billy Dann and his wife Edie lived across the road from my family on Lambley Crescent. They had two daughters, Beryl and Carol. Billy and Edie are both gone now, the daughters could still be alive but I wouldn’t know where.

Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by Joseph on 23/3/2025, 1:49 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?"

Edie nicest person you could ever meet,her husband always bog smile on his face,not sure if the other Man that worked there was edies brother or her man's, I do know there fish and chip's have never been equaled, never frozen always fresh, edies buried in Hebburn cemetery.

Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by Sheila on 23/3/2025, 2:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?"

I’m sure both Mr Danns were brothers.

Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by Brian on 23/3/2025, 3:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?"

I can remember going along for my nanna and grandad I couldn't have been more than 5 or 6. They smell coming out of the door was unbelievable.

Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by Jeff on 23/3/2025, 4:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?"

I can remember Dann`s fish shop approximately where the Hebburn hub is today , us little ones used to call the fish shop “ dirty Dan the fish shop man “ From what l recall they were very good fish n chips also remember it had a wooden counter that had probably had been cleaned and scrubbed every day for years and years that the counter wasn’t flat as such so the grain of the wood was protruding higher than the actual counter

Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?

Posted by Sheila on 23/3/2025, 5:47 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember Dann's Fish shop in Charles St?"

I remember on a Friday lunch ( dinner ) going for 4 pieces of cod. Mr Dann would bring out a large whole cod and fillet it on the the wooden table, separate to the counter. It was always as you said Jeff scrubbed clean.

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