Boldon Colliery
The Boldons are a team of three small towns in the north eastern of England - East Boldon, West Boldon and Boldon Colliery - north of Sunderland, east of Newcastle and also south of South Shields and also Jarrow. They have a population of 13,271. Existing within the historic borders of County Durham, the villages are first recorded in print in 1170. Their names progressed from the words "Bold" or "Botl", implying a building, as well as "dun", implying a hillside. In 1866, job started sinking a pit that started producing coal in 1869, and was then called Boldon New Winning. The town that created nearby in the 1870s came to be called Boldon Colliery. When the mine was deepened and expanded in the 1910s, additional real estate to accommodate the workforce was constructed to the south of the pit in a location referred to as Boldon New Town. Till 1974 the area was provided as a city district of County Durham, but ever since has actually become part of the borough of South Tyneside. In 1976, the Boldon Colliery Band showed up in episode 13 of the tv series When the Boat Comes In. The mine enclosed 1982 yet even more jobs became available when an Asda supermarket opened in 1987. Recent growths consist of Boldon Business Park. Boldon Colliery additionally has its own multi-screen movie theater operated by Cineworld. The main senior high school in the area is Boldon School, a specialist sporting activities university.
