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

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.