as a result the company now concentrates on manufacturing a variety of specialist mining ropes for the export market as well as stocking, servicing and trading a wide range of high-quality ropes and attachments for numerous applications. Governance Nationally, Hay Mills is part of the Birmingham, Yardley constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Jess Phillips of the Labour Party. Hay Mills was included in the West Midlands electoral region of the European Parliament. Transport The Grand Union Canal and the Leamington Spa to Birmingham railway line pass through the district. Tyseley and Small Heath are the closest railway stations situated approximately a from Hay Mills and served by London Midland to Birmingham, Dorridge and Leamington Spa and Chiltern Railways to Warwick, High Wycombe and London Marylebone. Motorway access is via junction 6 of the M42 beyond Birmingham Airport away with links to the M5, M6 and M40 motorways. The nearest airport is Birmingham International Airport situated to the East. A smaller aerodrome, Hay Mills Rotor Station, offering helicopter flights to London, operated from June 1951 to April 1952. Education Redhill Junior and Infant School Religious sites St Cyprians Church is situated in the Fordrough. Notable buildings Horsfall built houses and, in 1863, a school for his workers' children. In 1873, he built a church, St Cyprian's, designed by Frank Barlow Osborn and now grade II listed, over the mill race on the mill site. This developed into the village of Hay Mills. Notable people Kevin McNally, actor Fred Starkey, amateur athlete and model for a sculpture of the Greek god Apollo by William Bloye, which stands in Coronation Gardens, Dudley. See also Penns Hall, original mill of Joseph Webster St Cyprian's Church, Hay Mills Notes and references Notes References Webster and Horsfall BBC article on the mill and the transatlantic cable National Archives – Short history Origins of Hay Mill and Hay Hall External links Areas of Birmingham, West Midlands