CCTV Installation in South Ockendon

South Ockendon

South Ockendon is a village and Church of England parish in the Thurrock district and also unitary area in Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. It is located on the boundary with Greater London, just outside the M25 motorway. The location to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon village became a place for prefabricated houses (prefabs) fitting bombed-out residents of East London/West Essex in the very late 40s. Much of the original post-war construction was carried out by previous German prisoners of war. The majority of these were destroyed in the late-1960s when a large Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan "concrete" building and construction residences-- the Flowers' Estate-- was built to replace them, again with pre-fabricated homes, albeit of a superior style. The Lecaplan Type B kind of pre-cast concrete (huge panel concrete) balcony is built in rows of eight properties 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 built automobiles such as the RS1600. The plant was wound down progressively from the late 90's but shut totally in 2004, when the last 150 jobs were lost. The majority of the 150 workers accepted transfers to other Ford or supplementary sites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was positioned along and also west of the railway line, adjacent to Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has actually currently been turned into brand-new housing estates, with road names after famous Ford vehicles in keeping with the sites history.