South Ockendon
South Ockendon is a village as well as Church of England parish in the Thurrock district and also unitary area in Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. It lies on the boundary with Greater London, simply outside the M25 motorway. The location to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon town came to be a place for premade residences (prefabs) accommodating bombed-out locals of East London/West Essex in the very late 40s. Much of the original post-war construction was undertaken by previous German prisoners of war. Most of these were knocked down in the late-1960s when a big Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan "concrete" building and construction houses-- the Flowers' Estate-- was built to change them, one more time with pre-fabricated dwellings, albeit of a remarkable style. The Lecaplan Type B kind of pre-cast concrete (large panel concrete) terrace is built in rows of eight buildings to a style by J C Tilley and produced by W. & C. French. In the 1970s the Ford Motor Company factory at Aveley housed Ford's Advanced Vehicle Operations which developed autos such as the RS1600. The plant was unwinded slowly from the late 90's yet shut completely in 2004, when the last 150 tasks were shed. Most of the 150 employees accepted transfers to various other Ford or secondary sites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was positioned along as well as west of the train line, adjacent to Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has actually currently been turned into brand-new real estate estates, with road names after popular Ford lorries in keeping with the sites background.
