South Ockendon
South Ockendon is a village and Church of England parish in the Thurrock borough and unitary area in Essex in the East of England, UK. It lies on the border with Greater London, simply outside the M25 motorway. The location to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon town ended up being an area for premade residences (prefabs) fitting bombed-out homeowners of East London/West Essex in the extremely late 40s. Much of the initial post-war building was embarked on by previous German prisoners of war. Most of these were knocked down in the late-1960s when a large Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan "concrete" construction residences-- the Flowers' Estate-- was built to replace them, one more time with pre-fabricated residences, albeit of a remarkable style. The Lecaplan Kind B kind of pre-cast concrete (huge panel concrete) balcony is built in rows of 8 residential properties to a design 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 slowly from the late 90's yet shut entirely in 2004, when the last 150 work were lost. Most of the 150 workers approved transfers to various other Ford or supplementary websites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was situated along as well as west of the train line, adjacent to Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has now been developed into new housing estates, with road names after popular Ford lorries in maintaining with the sites history.