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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Mark Brown North of England correspondent

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

Dug up hole on a golf course with a visible small entrance
The small entrance was found to lead into an arch-ceilinged brick cellar. Photograph: Davyhulme Park golf club/SWNS

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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