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After his early childhood in Glossop, Dan Oliver enters the grocery business and in the 1930's is the Manager of Burgon's Grocers and Specialist Tea Blenders on Melbourne Street in Stalybridge. The shop was where Dean's Furniture Shop is now. Some of the lettering can still be made out on the gable end of the shop overlooking the river. Here two STANLEY sisters are working as sales assistants, Edith and Joan. This shop had been built by their great grandfather Robert Reschid STANLEY in 1847, and in a small window, can still be seen the words EST. 1847
Dan Oliver had a reputation for being a very genial man, intelligent and very popular, possessing a great amount of charm. Despite his reputation as a bit of a ladies man, it was soon apparent that Joan Stanley, by now his cashier, and he were to become an item. They were married on Boxing Day 1838 in the Register Office at Glossop, witnessed by Dan's brother Frederick and Joan's father Dean Stanley. There was perhaps a little disapproval from her father, possibly because of Dan's reputation, or more likely, because this was the second of his daughters to have found herself "in the family way".
Dan is transferred to Alderley Edge to manage Burgon's there, and their first child Terry is born on the 13th June 1939, but sadly he died in March 1942. Their second child Michael is born on the 7th January 1943 and shortly after this the opportunity to manage the Burgon's shop in Glossop comes up. Dan is delighted that he can now come home to Glossop and be near his four brothers again.
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