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Bold is a
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in the
Metropolitan Borough of St Helens The Metropolitan Borough of St Helens is a local government district with borough status in Merseyside, North West England. The borough is named after its largest settlement, St Helens. It is one of the six boroughs of the Liverpool City Region ...
in
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,
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. Bold itself is situated to the south east of St Helens, near to the boundaries with Halton and
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. The parish extends southwards beyond the
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and includes the hamlet of Bold Heath along with the
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and New Bold area of St Helens. According to the 2001 Census it had a population of 3,410 at the 2011 Census


History

Within the boundaries of the historic county of
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, Bold is on the former site of the estate (in 1848, almost 7000 acres) of Bold Hall, the home of the ancient family of Bolde, who settled there before the
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and ran the estate for hundreds of years. When
Peter Bold Peter Bold (c.1705–1762) of Bold Hall in Prescot, Lancashire, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1727 and 1761. Biography Bold was the eldest son of Richard Bold, MP, and his wife Elizabeth N ...
MP died in 1762, leaving three daughters but no son, the estate passed out of the hands of the family and was eventually broken up. The Hall and the remaining 1500 acres were sold in 1893 to a syndicate of colliery proprietors. The 150th anniversary event of the
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and the Rainhill Trials was held on the extensive rail sidings at Bold in May 1980. The event featured a working replicas of Stephenson's ''Rocket'' and ''
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'', a
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and a selection of main line railway locomotives. Bold Colliery was the last coal mine in Britain to use
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s, ending the practice in the autumn of 1982. There are proposals for a garden village of 3,000 houses at Bold Forest to the south of St Helens Junction station.


Economy

The Bold area was the site of Bold Colliery, with Bold A and B Power Stations on adjacent land. These power stations had a total electricity generating capacity of 300
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s (MW). At the time of completion, between 1958 and 1960, they were the largest such generating facility in the north west. The colliery and power stations are now closed, with the latter site redeveloped for housing and the creation of public open spaces. Other industry in the area included a large engineering works which is now an
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. Bold A and B Power Stations were coal fired, with a direct coal
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link from a washery at the colliery. This fed either directly to coal bunkers in both stations or to a stocking area. The extensive rail sidings were utilised for coal delivery, either from Bold Colliery or from other collieries via the main
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. The coal from Bold Colliery was deep mined and therefore costly to recover. In later years, due to commercial reasons, the main coal supply became mostly by road from either Yorkshire or Scotland. The 'A' power station had an installed capacity of 120 MW. It consisted of four 30 MW two-cylinder
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s/
alternator An alternator (or synchronous generator) is an electrical generator that converts mechanical energy to electrical energy in the form of alternating current. For reasons of cost and simplicity, most alternators use a rotating magnetic field wit ...
s manufactured by
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and
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(AEI). No.3 M/C was installed with the first direct water-cooled alternator. Steam was supplied from four Yarrow & Co. coal-fired
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s with tangentially fired tilting pulverized fuel burners, with 3no type LM13 table mills made by ICL of Derby. The 'B' power station was installed with three 60 MW machines (equalling 180 MW total capacity). It used a central unit control system with the turbine/hydrogen cooled alternators manufactured by the
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(GEC). As with 'A' power station, no.3 alternator was a
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direct water-cooled machine. The coolant water was fed via glass tubes on the
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connections. Each unit had boilers manufactured by John Thompson of Wolverhampton, each using two suction ball mills each with two exhausters, these feeding to twelve front wall pulverized fuel burners. The boilers fed steam at 900
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/900 degrees Fahrenheit directly to each turbine/alternator.


Transport

Many bus services serve the Bold ward including
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's 32/32A/32C, 33/33A, 121 and 122,
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's 140, 265 and 141 services,
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...
's 17/17A/17B and Strawberry Bus' Line 1 service. However, there are no railway stations located in the ward, with the nearest being Lea Green railway station and St Helens Junction railway station located in the
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ward.


Facilities

The ward contains a number of facilities including a public house, a miners' club and a Labour club (all of which are located in Clock Face, Merseyside) and a series of mini supermarkets and off-licences. The nearest chain supermarkets are a
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supermarket,
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Metro store and branches of
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which are located in bordering wards. There is also a
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branch located in the Clock Face, Merseyside area of the ward.


See also

* Listed buildings in Bold, St Helens


References


Notes


General


John Thompson Engineering



External links

{{Areas of St Helens, Merseyside St Helens, Merseyside Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens Civil parishes in Merseyside