Lovegreen Street

A Memory of Durham.

My paternal grandmother lived in Lovegreen Street and died when I was 11 years old. Her name was Hanley. She was 80+ when she died and had brought up 6 children in this tiny terraced cottage. I used to visit with my dad and do remember that there was a family with name of Loftus. The ferry was no longer in existence then but my mother told me the story of when she was a little girl and lived at Brasside, they all walked through the fields to the ferry and went across to Gilesgate goods station to collect furniture which had been sent by mail order. They all carried a piece to the ferry and walked all the way to Brasside again. This must have been in the 1920s. She also told me that the Lady of the Manor, Crookhall, used to invite the residents of Lovegreen Street for strawberry tea on one day of the year.
I remember the house in Lovegreen Street to this day as well as the pigeon lofts which were up the hill at the end of the street and the dog track on the riverbanks nearby. Where the ferry used to be there were still some steps down and a bit of a 'square' where there was a small garden. The only photograph I have taken in the street is of my grandmother in the back yard.