Talk:Old Boston Colliery

RUBBISH
Whoever has started this article doesn't know their arse from their elbow and I take it as vandalism.

Old Boston is not a 'village' in St.Helens at all. The villages name is Haydock. Old Boston is the name of a colliery which operated in Haydock. There were two 'Boston' collieries in Haydock, Old Boston and New Boston. Old Boston was used as a Training Centre for National Coal Board, then British Coal, employees. The Old Boston trading estate is now on the site of the Old Boston Colliery and Training Centre.

Village indeed! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.239.71.235 (talk) 02:45, 2 January 2011 (UTC)


 * It's not "vandalism" for someone to create an article with incorrect detail Jemmy. Koncorde (talk) 12:42, 2 January 2011 (UTC)

I did think it had been created as part of the 'everywhere is in Wigan' campaign. As the rest of the Haydock vandalism was. In any case, I wouldn't call the original article content incorrect 'detail'. It was simply, totally, incorrect as a whole. Myself, I wouldn't have regarded one colliery, out of many, to be worthy of it's own article. What next? I know, let's have an article about 'Haydock Island Petrol Station'. Shell's figurehead site at main transport hub of the north-west? I think not. All Haydock information should be compounded as part of the 'Haydock' article. Rather like all St.Helens information should be compounded on the 'St.Helens' article and all Wigan information should be compounded on the 'Wigan' article.

92.239.71.235 (talk) 20:53, 2 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Your definition of vandalism doesn't meet any definition seen anywhere else.Koncorde (talk) 00:16, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Renamed and turned into redirect
This article was ultimately about the Colliery, Training Centre and Business Park, with no additional content added for a decade to detail why it should be differentiated, and can be covered more adequately in the Haydock article. Koncorde (talk) 10:35, 15 June 2022 (UTC)