‘Thought it was a collapsed drain’: golf course sinkhole exposes lost wine cellar
The Guardian World
by Mark Brown North of England correspondentMarch 4, 2026
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.
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Originally published on The Guardian World on 3/4/2026