Barry was committed to the view that good neighbourliness could be fashioned, stoked, reinvented and reassembled - in almost all circumstances. He had a life-long experience of Broomhall, and had campaigned through the darkest days of lurking prostitutes, and their fellow-travellers; he had argued for some control of parking and traffic speeds; he had been alert to the threats posed to the conservation area by a variety of cheeky planning applications. His mother's difficulties with student noisy thoughtlessness meant that he was clear that it was not just a question of protecting the ordered gentility of Broomhall Park: people in the smaller houses in the roads off Ecclesall Road had their own reasons to be wary of what became known as 'studentification'. Barry connected national and local campaigns. He circulated web-discussions. His tireless emails kept his fellow Broomhall friends up to date with what the police were doing; what public meeting was coming up; when we could all join in an organised litter-pick. He was kind and funny. We shall be lost without him.