31 Tutnalls Street, Lydney. This house was owned by the Sterry family for 2 generations. Richard Sterry (1879-1952) is pictured outside the house in the right-hand photo. Note the "tin" (galvanised iron) bath to his right.

Thanks to Peter Essex who added (March 2007:) "My grandfather William Frank Essex and his wife Frances lived at 42 Forest Road Lydney between the late 1940s and their deaths around the late fifties/early sixties. I used to stay with them as a child in my Easter holidays. My grandmother's maiden name was Sterry and she had numerous local relatives including some who lived at Tutnalls. She had relatives at:
23 Forest Road (Frank who was a foreman at Lydney train depot and Lil who was a nurse at Lydney hospital),
Albert Street (named Ivy, and other Sterry family members called Flo, Harold, and their son called Peter Beard)
and at Tutnalls (a man I think also called Bert who worked at Lydney Docks and they had a son named Gregory).
There were also relatives in Fairfield Road called Hilda and George, and a woman called Zeana and her son whose name was Brian Clutterbuck.
My grandfather William Frank Essex, who grew up in Cheltenham and then worked for the Great Western Railway at Bullo Pill before coming to London and becoming a senior police officer, was a leading light in the Methodist Church at Springfield, Lydney in the days of the Revd Albert Simpkins and an organist whose name was Russell who worked in the local butcher's. My grandfather was also a member of the old Lydney Rural District Council. I believe he was also a senior freemason. He was also responsible (possibly after his death!) for a wicket gate at the level crossing in Hill Street which I believe carried a plaque saying "The Essex Gates" although I once visited Norchard but nobody there at the time knew anything of this. There may still be some with people the Sterry surname in or around Lydney and I would be fascinated to renew contact with them or any other relatives still living locally. I think at around the time of his death my grandfather lived at 16 Bathurst Park, Lydney".