The cellar kept expandingSourced
A wine-cellar excavation grew into decades of tunnelling
William Lyttle began digging a wine cellar beneath his London home. From the 1960s into the 2000s, the work expanded into an underground network. Sinkholes and other disruptions brought complaints, and he was evicted in 2006. His excavation had become a problem extending beyond his property.
The home project no longer affected just the home.
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