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:
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)
“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)
“No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)