Joan Daymond

Joan Daymond is a friendly, astute 93-year-old who has led a very interesting life. I hope I have done justice to her memories. Joan was born on April 17, 1928, to Alice, née Marshall, and Montague Bridge. She was their third child. Her sister, Frances, was five years older and her brother Fred, was two years older. Her second sister Beryl was born two years after her. They grew up in the Melbourne suburb of East Hawthorn where Joan resided with her parents until her marriage in 1951. Her father, Montague, was born in 1885. During the First World War her father served in France where he was gassed in the trenches. This caused him to suffer with bronchitis for the rest of his life. He was employed carting bricks by means of horse and cart at the Auburn Brickworks where Joan’s Grandpa Bridge was the manager. In 1935 he went to the Show and purchased a Studebaker flat tray truck to cart the bricks, a job which he continued until his retirement.