[3][7] After 83 games and 11 goals for the Vicarage Road based club, he was transfer listed for an asking price of £300, before eventually joining Exeter City for a third of that figure.
Barnes played 15 York City games, scoring once, before retiring from professional football due to a foot injury.
[4] His family included wife Nancy, daughter Janet (who later had two children Angela and Paul), and he lived to see all four of his grandchildren, Naomi, Niall, Jenna, and Matthew.
[3] Apart from football, Barnes' sporting interests included golf, boxing, cricket, swimming and greyhound racing.
[3] Barnes died from Alzheimer's disease in a nursing home in Coleshill, Warwickshire, only 27 days before his 100th birthday.