Disley Jones, who lived in Trinity Church Square from 1996 to 2004, merited a substantial obituary in the Guardian* on 23 June 2005 under the headline: "Theatrical polymath, film production designer, restauranteur, bon vivant, bohemian and handful".

From his relatively short time in our community some of the things TNRA remembers about Disley are:

• his theatrical designs hung on the railings of the Garden Fete in 2002, which gave us the idea for the first TNRA Art Show;
   
• his enthusiasm in preparation for that first show in Gallery 33, which brought Maria nearly to the point of exhaustion;
   
• his exuberant behaviour at the private view for the show and the crowd of his theatrical friends who attended;
   
• his pictures themselves, designs (some unused) for many plays and films from the 1940s onwards, which some of us now have hung on our walls to remember him by;
   
• his volunteering to be on the TNRA committee in 2003, "to put something back into the community";
   
• his exhortations to us that year that the Garden Fete must, above all, be "fun";
   
• the flamboyant display of his secondhand clothes stall and his selling technique at that fete;
   
• his enjoyment of French food and drink on TNRA trips to Boulogne;
   
• his appalling behaviour on the return from the September 2003 trip, when the planned supermarket visit was aborted;
   
• the attractive garden that he made in the unpromising backyard of 2 TCS;
   
• his glowering presence at the bar of the Royal Oak and many other local pubs;
   
• his fund of theatrical stories, past and present - we regret that we did not capture and preserve some of these.

* See www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/obituary/0,,1512562,00.html