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‘Thought it was a collapsed drain’: golf course sinkhole exposes lost wine cellar
UK News•March 4, 2026 at 11:25 AMNational

‘Thought it was a collapsed drain’: golf course sinkhole exposes lost wine cellar

By Mark Brown North of England correspondent•The Guardian - UK News

Groundsman stumbles across room, sealed for more than 100 years, that was part of 12th-century Manchester hallA sinkhole that opened up on a Manchester golf course has exposed a wine cellar abandoned for more than a century.The cellar, along with dozens of empty wine and port bottles, was discovered by a groundsman who assumed the hole was nothing more than a collapsed drain. Continue reading...

Groundsman stumbles across room, sealed for more than 100 years, that was part of 12th-century Manchester hall

A sinkhole that opened up on a Manchester golf course has exposed a wine cellar abandoned for more than a century.

The cellar, along with dozens of empty wine and port bottles, was discovered by a groundsman who assumed the hole was nothing more than a collapsed drain.

Continue reading...

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