Boundaries
Up until the May 2010 general election, the seat was formed from the electoral wards of Selly Oak, Bournville and Kings Norton. It includes many students and staff from the nearby University of Birmingham. The University's Selly Oak campus is located entirely within this constituency. The Cadbury factory and 'Cadbury World' are also within its boundaries.
Read more about this topic: Birmingham Selly Oak (UK Parliament Constituency)
Famous quotes containing the word boundaries:
“We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“We must be generously willing to leave for a time the narrow boundaries in which our individual lives are passed ... In this fresh, breezy atmosphere ... we will be surprised to find that many of our familiar old conventional truths look very queer indeed in some of the sudden side lights thrown upon them.”
—Bertha Honore Potter Palmer (1849–1918)
“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)