Industry
- Brickearth and gravel quarry and brick works: east of and adjacent to Heathrow Road / Cain's Lane junction, started in the early 1930s. At a survey in 1934 the quarry was 15.9 acres, of which 5.3 acres was lake. Later it expanded to the northeast and finally the lake was about a quarter of a mile long.
- A entry in the London Gazette for 6 July 1943 announced a meeting of the creditors of the Heathrow Brick Company under the Companies Act 1929, to be held on 9 July 1943.
- In and around Heathrow were various old small diggings where people had dug small amounts of brickearth and/or gravel for their own use over time. For example, a photograph taken in the early 20th century in Cain's Farm's farmyard shows a horsedrawn milk float and the ground is gravelled.
- Fairey Aviation's Great West Aerodrome
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Famous quotes containing the word industry:
“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.)
“The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.”
—Karl Lagerfeld (b. 1938)
“Whatever I may be, I want to be elsewhere than on paper. My art and my industry have been employed in making myself good for something; my studies, in teaching me to do, not to write. I have put all my efforts into forming my life. That is my trade and my work.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)