Sinkholes

In Ripon, North Yorkshire, a woman recalls how a huge hole opened up next to her house more than 60 feet wide and 30 feet deep. In Florida, a sinkhole appeared directly below a property, sucking a resident deep underground in the process.

An investigation of sinkholes caused by collapsed mine shafts, including one in Gosforth which opened up in front of a flat and led down to an abandoned coal mine. A homeowner reports how he is stuck in an unsellable house surrounded by sinkholes.

In St. Albans 53 houses were cut off from the outside world and a horse in Somerset found himself sinking deeper into a hole.