Talk:The Boldons

message: 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)

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

message: 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)
thread_title:  Boldon or The Boldons? 

message: 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)
thread_title: The new school a good idea?

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

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Citation For The Politics Section

message: 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)
thread_title:  Citations about the animals and such? 

message: "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."
https://bosworthtoller.com/8106 92.0.200.22 (talk) 09:56, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The name 'Boldon'