Our gardening sessions at Southbourne Age Concern usually attract the attention of passers-by who congratulate us on our hard work. Today a local resident told us which classroom he'd been in; the teachers' names; and the unusual cellar he and his playmates had discovered, when the Age Concern building was the local primary school.

We carried on the history lesson with the discovery of a piece of pottery from an old ginger beer bottle, to join the clay pipe we had dug up on our previous visit.

But in between the history lessons we cleared the remaining section of overgrown grass and old weed membrane, ready for the garden's new landscaping.

It was lovely to have Lisa joining Val and me at our Southbourne task - thank you, Lisa - come again!