The Boldons are a team of three tiny villages in the north eastern of England - East Boldon, West Boldon and also Boldon Colliery - north of Sunderland, east of Newcastle as well as south of South Shields and Jarrow. They have a population of 13,271. Existing within the historic boundaries of County Durham, the towns are first recorded in print in 1170. Their names advanced from words "Bold" or "Botl", meaning a structure, and also "dun", indicating a hill. In 1866, work started sinking a pit that started creating coal in 1869, as well as was then known as Boldon New Winning. The village that established close by in the 1870s became referred to as Boldon Colliery. When the mine was deepened and expanded in the 1910s, further real estate to accommodate the workforce was constructed to the south of the pit in an area called Boldon New Town. Until 1974 the location was carried out as a metropolitan district of County Durham, however ever since has actually become part of the district of South Tyneside. In 1976, the Boldon Colliery Band showed up in episode 13 of the television series When the Boat Comes In. The mine enclosed 1982 but even more jobs appeared when an Asda grocery store opened in 1987. Recent advancements include Boldon Business Park. Boldon Colliery also has its very own multi-screen movie theater run by Cineworld. The primary high school in the area is Boldon School, a specialist sporting activities college.