Description

Summary: postcard, black and white, 'Sway House' Sway, not posted, 1930's

Identification note: Sway House (now Sway Court) was gifted to Captain Frederick Yateman in 1918. His new bride, however, thought the house too big and had a smaller property built not too far away. By the 1930s Sway House was let out to Mr and Mrs Millbank-Watson and became Sway House Hotel, however at the outbreak of the Second World War it was requisitioned for military use. During the war troops from the Sherwood Foresters were billeted there, and there may even have been anti-aircraft defence within the grounds. It is said that Sway House was haunted and even rumoured that the sentries always went in twos. In 1946 the house was purchased by Dr and Mrs McNair-Wilson, parents of Patrick McNair-Wilson, the New Forest M.P.