Joan Hunter Dunn the engagement is sheer fantasy, but my life was very like the poem." She married Harold Wycliffe Jackson, a civil servant in the Ministry of Information, in January 1945, at St Mark's Church in Farnborough. Betjeman was invited, but was unable to attend. The poem was republished in Betjeman's book "New Bats in Old Belfries" in 1945, and was later mentioned in Flanders and Swann's "Tried by Centre Court". Joan Jackson accompanied her husband to Malaya after the war, where he ran a radio station. They then lived in Singapore, before returning to the UK in 1957. Harold worked for
Joan Payzant Joan Payzant Joan Payzant was a Canadian author most known for her historical fiction. She wrote about the history of Dartmouth and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Payzant was born in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada on 4 February 1925. She graduated from Dalhousie University. She died in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 14 August 2013. Her first major book was about the ferry that connects Halifax and Dartmouth. She also wrote children's books including "Who's a Scaredy-Cat! - A Story of the Halifax Explosion", which is a story surrounding two families in Dartmouth at the time of the Halifax explosion. After her