Lives in Cricet No 33 - Jack Robertson and Syd Brown

129 Ian and Joyce visited Lord’s when a seat in the Coronation Gardens was dedicated to Jack’s memory. 177 Only a few months before his death he had written a personal account of the 1947 season for the Middlesex Annual Review. He concluded it by saying ‘… a never-to-be-forgotten season ... most of all I will remember the many happy hours I spent on and off the field with my team mates.’ Joyce lived for another 15 years before passing away in July 2011. She and Jack were cremated at West Suffolk Crematorium, Bury St Edmunds. * * * * * * * At the end of the 1960 season the Middlesex CCC General Committee had recommended a number of former players for honorary membership of the club. The criteria were that they should be capped players whose services to the club were deserving of special recognition. Not surprisingly Jack and Syd were among those recommended. And in the Middlesex Room at Lord’s there is a wall that has been set aside for photographs of players who have made a significant contribution to the club’s fortunes. It is a select panorama: at the end of 2012 only fifty players had been honoured. Most have been photographed singly but appropriately Jack and Syd are shown together, striding out purposefully from the Lord’s pavilion, a lasting and evocative tribute to one of English cricket’s great partnerships. 177 The Middlesex Annual Review for 1997/98 includes a photograph of mother and son sitting on the bench in the summer sunshine. After Cricket