Recent users of Swaythling Railway Station will have seen the display on “The Swaythling Remount Depot 1914-1919″ with cut-out horses made by pupils of Cantell School. This was constructed in mid-June and accompanied by an explanatory plaque on the station building.
Several times in this Newsletter, we have proposed a memorial to the Swaythling Remount Depot which could take the form of an information board telling the story of the depot. A good place for this would be somewhere on the verge in Bassett Green Road where it ran through the South Camp of the Remount Depot. See www.swaythling.org.uk/the-site.html
Barbara Cooke, the Community Development Officer of Radian (formerly the Swaythling Housing Society) will be concentrating on Richard Willis Fleming and the Remount Depot next year. (Richard was the son of the owners of the North Stoneham Estate and was killed in Egypt on 4th August 1916. She is looking to apply to the Heritage Lottery Fund in the very near future.
