Talk:The Boldons

The Boldons and Boldon should, IMO, be merged. I would propose using the content at Boldon, but having this content at The Boldons. I don't know the local area myself, so it could be that the villages are referred to as "Boldon" more often than "The Boldons", but to an outsider, the latter sounds more logical. CLW 19:22, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

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No input, so I'll go ahead and do it. CLW 23:43, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Boldon or The Boldons?

The name is interchangeable, The Boldons being more formal and Boldon being a more common term. The 3 villages are very seperate in their character and architecture which is why they are referred to locally using their seperate names, taking the 3 together the place is really a small town than a village

I call it Boldon as I live in it, but the boldons would be more suitible for all 3. (in reference to the above sentance being edited by 195.93.21.99) I obviously do not call it a "shit hole" --Stikman 15:52, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

New Boldon?

Should the term 'new Boldon be used or not? i Believe that it should have some sort of inclusion, but with a controversy surrounding the term. Your thoughts?

If anybody can find a suitable image to add to the wikipage i would be very grateful if they could add it to the page. thank.

The new school a good idea?

I had expected it to be alot better then it is. The colour scheme of it is horrendous! Many of the walls are a dark, oppresive grey. Those which are not are of a ghastly green, orange, blue and yellow. The toilet doors are blue and pink.

The absence rate for teachers ALONE is disgraceful!

I have to disagree with anyone that says that the school dinners are of good quality. If they are supposed to be like jamie olivers then he must serve very small, nasty portions of food. The pasta is always watery, the mince is also watery and contains fragments of bone. the green beans are usualy undercooked and taste akin to cold, raw peapods. I am sure that the mashed potato is "smash" or something similar, as whenever anyone has it, they find large lumps of stuff, showing that they don't make it correctly! --Stikman 15:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

I agree with Stikman. The fact that barely any teachers showed up is a bit of an exaguration, but the abcense rate was apawling. This was especially such near the GCSE examinations.

--82.39.71.180 01:22, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd have to say, Boldon school is entering a decline. It was a waste to buy the new school, as it's abused by staff and students alike! --91.105.115.124 (talk) 20:53, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

Since I went to that school before the new one was built, I must say I noticed a massive difference, but not for the good! Although the old school was dropping to bits, people were more relaxed and had fun. Now everyone is uptight and nasty. As I was a peer supporter, I could see the number of incidents of bullying have increased at least twice since it was built, due to cramped areas, poor ventilation and offensize colour schemes (I've heard orange make you more violent, and vomit green walls aren't going to help you if you have a bad head at school, etc).

Although the school has many good features (More computers with easy access from home) they should spend time to do things like get the library sorted out, so it's a nicer area to study. Prehaps teaching the students not just work, but social skills and how to interact with society polietly. If not, then I fear that the school is doing little more than producing the next generation of these "Chavs" and "Chavettes".--Ursine Android (talk) 23:41, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Boldon mines

Does anyone know why the mines shut down? --91.105.112.128 (talk) 18:04, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Citation For The Politics Section

Where did you get this information? It seems to be based upon someones opinion. It's not that I'm disputing that there is little crime, but where is the evidence? I could say that there is alot of antisocial behaviour from "chavs" but I don't have any actual "evidence." --Stikman (talk) 18:23, 9 May 2010 (UTC)

Well, it seems like opinion, so should I remove it?--Stikman (talk) 19:01, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

I'd prefer not to remove it, but it does seem to be just opinion.

"...many people claim..." Who are these people? There's no citation for any of this. I know about WP:NOR so I can't just claim otherwise, but there's nothing to back it up. There's no links to articles displaying levels of crime, or anything showing the exam results from the local schools (I assume good schooling = good grades). I thought it may have been cited by now, but I'll remove it unless I can find something to cite. --Stikman (talk) 15:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

Citations about the animals and such?

Anyone know where I would find citations about the voles and frogs etc talked about in this article? I'm having a look myself, it would just be interesting (and more factual) to get some links. --Stikman (talk) 15:53, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Regarding "boldon" name origin

In particular, the "don" part. There is a page on this wiki about how (here) means hill fort. I don't know of any hill forts that have been in this area historically, but Boldon potentially was named (at least partially) after a hill fort that has since became ruined. Unless of course, if anyone knows whether 'dun' has moved to mean specifically a hill? Then it would just be "a building on a hill". I'll try and see if I can find any information, but hopefully someone else might have a bit more information about it. --Stikman (talk) 14:49, 2 July 2016 (UTC)

Just to add to this, the wiktionary says the word "bold" apparently means something like house, or dwelling-place. Could boldon then mean a fort on a hill used as a house? Hopefully someone has an actual source to the origin on the name, because even if we deconstruct the word, WP:NOR means you can't just stick what you think here without a source.

Small?

If they have a joint population of 13,000, it seems impossible that they are all "small" villages. Even if divided equally that would be well over 4,000.

The name 'Boldon'

"Bol" is the Anglo Saxon name for "hill," and Don is the name of the river that wraps itself around the bol. Therefore, the original village was named "Bol-Don", meaning "hill on the Don."

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