Couple Discover 33ft-Deep Well - Under Their Sofa!!

A couple were left stunned after finding a 33ft well - under their sofa.

Colin Steer, and wife Vanessa, both 61, who have lived in their Victorian home for 24 years first discovered a slight indentation in their living room floor after they moved in.
But Vanessa told her husband to simply cover up the 1ft-deep hole as much as possible as they had three young children in the house.

However since retiring last October, Colin began to decorate the living room and dig deeper - finding the huge hole was bigger than he had thought.



He spent three days clearing the well, which is around 30inches wide, using a bucket on a rope to pull up the debris.


The former civil servant from Plymouth, Devon, said: "I was replacing the joists in the floor when I noticed a slight depression - it appeared to be filled in with the foundations of the house.

"I dug down about one foot and saw that it was a well, but my wife just wanted to me to cover it back up because we had three children running around at the time.

"I always wanted to dig it out to see if I could find a pot of gold at the bottom, so when I retired at the end of last year that's what I did.

"I was quite surprised really, I would have preferred it to be in the garden where I could have got at it a little easier."