Pay a visit to Rainham Hall

A small town on the edge of East London with few attractions boasts, somewhat incongruously, a nearly 300-year old mansion house.
A few years ago it underwent major renovations and is now open regularly to the public.Rainham Hall is a decent sized house built as a home and showpiece by John Harle, a South Shields born coal merchant who had previously moved to London.
In 1720/21 he married a widow from Stepney with a large stake in the South Sea Company. Whether he married a rich widow who sold h