Chingford is a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of London full of terraced houses with gardens. There is a nursery, a few cafes, a church, and a train station, which connects the area to the heart of the English capital. Surrounding it are the lush greenery of a golf course and Epping Woods, a wooded area full of paths andrunnersIt's in the middle of this bucolic setting where, in 1939, a company called London Rubber set up the country's main condom factory. The company had been registering the Durex trademark for ten years and had seen immediate success. But who was behind the company, and how did they lay the foundations for a brand that, a hundred years later, leads a market worth $10 billion annually?