Age: (in 1977): 24.
Home: Outlane, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
Family: Lives alone in a caravan and the partly built house on the Moors.
Appearance: craggy, rugged, morose. Usually dressed in work clothes.
Occupation: builder.
Interests: playing the saxophone.
Barrie starts as a bit player but becomes increasingly involved in the goings-on.