Industry
There are also a number of industrial units in variable condition. One of them, Gravelly Industrial Park, is one of the city's largest and most successful industrial estates. Companies with units in the park include Carlsberg, which distributes to regional accounts and national depots.
Gravelly Hill is part of the Stockland Green ward. However it was previously a ward in its own right and also formed part of the Erdington Constituency. The previous ward was occasionally won by the Conservatives. With the mother of current Conservative Councillor for Erdington Robert Alden, narrowly losing the seat in 1976 elections. Interestingly his father was parliamentary candidate in 1975-79 for the area. Gaining one of the largest swings in the Country in 1979.
Gravelly Hill railway station is part of the Cross-City Line.
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Famous quotes containing the word industry:
“The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. School is where you go between when your parents can’t take you and industry can’t take you.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“Do not put off your work until tomorrow and the day after. For the sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor the one who puts off his work; industry aids work, but the man who puts off work always wrestles with disaster.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“... we’re not out to benefit society, to remold existence, to make industry safe for anyone except ourselves, to give any small peoples except ourselves their rights. We’re not out for submerged tenths, we’re not going to suffer over how the other half lives. We’re out for Mary’s job and Luella’s art, and Barbara’s independence and the rest of our individual careers and desires.”
—Anne O’Hagan (1869–?)