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If you are thinking of driving to Shenfield, you can get trains from Blackfriars to Farringdon which is on the Elizabeth Line. It's only a couple of stops.
You can get trains from Bromley South to London Blackfriars, some direct, some with a change at Herne Hill. Blackfriars is six stops from Liverpool Street on the Circle Line.
At that time of night they tend to take around 35-40 minutes.
For example the 22.23 is direct and gets to Blackfriars at 22.59.
Bromley South is just under 20 minutes walk from the ground but shorter if you run.
Tonight, however, some of the trains appear to be up the spout.
In the liner notes to the Velvet Underground's box set Peel Slowly and See, Lou Reed wrote, "'Rock and Roll' is about me. If I hadn't heard rock and roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet. Which would have been devastating - to think that everything, everywhere was like it was where I come from. That would have been profoundly discouraging. Movies didn't do it for me. TV didn't do it for me. It was the radio that did it."
The irony is that the widely-trailed deselection of centrist Labour MPs never materialised, but when McSweeney and Starmer got into power, they ensured total control over the selection of candidates in order to prevent candidates from the left (apart from a few sitting MPs) standing.
The tragedy is that the landlords were clan chiefs such as the Duke of Argyll.
This from Wikipedia.
"The eviction of tenants went against dùthchas, the principle that clan members had an inalienable right to rent land in the clan territory. This was never recognised in Scottish law. It was gradually abandoned by clan chiefs as they began to think of themselves simply as commercial landlords, rather than as patriarchs of their people."
I have ancestors from Colonsay, Mull and the Shetlands who would have been crofters.
In Shetland the soil was fairly infertile, so fishing would have been an important part of life. Indeed, I have two ancestors from the Shetlands who drowned at sea whilst fishing.
Some of my ancestors lived in the cleared village of Shiaba on the Ross of Mull, not far from Iona. It also suffered from the failure of the potato crop in 1846.
Interestingly, a notable resident of Shiaba was the Gaelic poet Mary MacLucas, author of the Gaelic hymn Leanabh an àigh (Child in a Manger). The tune of this piece (an old Gaelic melody) later became famous as the melody to the more widely known hymn Morning Has Broken.
Prior to Brexit, relocating to Spain would have been an option.
In the southern Costa Blanca homes are dirt cheap, the running costs of a home (including heating, insurance and local taxes) are a fraction of those in the UK, the cost of living is cheap, and £25,000 index-linked would be a small fortune, given many live there on little more than the state pension. And the climate is such that buildings just don't deteriorate.
I assume (perhaps wrongly) that this is a humorous reference to Billy Joel's song We Didn't Start The Fire which also contains a list of things.
Harry Truman, Doris Day Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea Marilyn Monroe
[Verse 2] Rosenbergs, H-Bomb Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King and I And The Catcher in the Rye Eisenhower, vaccine England's got a new queen Marciano, Liberace Santayana goodbye
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