The party included three of Bobby's grandsons - Michael, Robert and Richard Mackman - and three great-grandchildren - Philip, Anthony and Laurence Mackman, plus Philip's fiancee Talisa Mancuso. Six of the Mackmans have flown to the UK from their base in Australia.
One of the schoolboys who helped form the Club in a meeting famously held under a gas lamp on the High Road all the way back in 1882, Bobby was our first captain and scored the Club's first recorded goal in a friendly against Grange Park on 20 November, 1883.
Bobby became Honorary Secretary in the early 1890s and was on the Club's first-ever Board of Directors in 1898.