We went to Loughton, the Essex town at the end of the Central Line, where the city merges into the countryside and you can look out over the valley of the River Roding towards Chigwell:-

We passed the house where Jacob Epstein lived and the plot of land where he had his studio, demolished last year, at the back of where there used to be a paint factory.

It’s surprisingly rustic, in a 1930s way:-