South Ockendon
South Ockendon is a small town and Church of England parish in the Thurrock district and also unitary district in Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. It is located on the boundary with Greater London, simply outside the M25 motorway. The location to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon village ended up being an area for premade homes (prefabs) suiting bombed-out citizens of East London/West Essex in the extremely late 40s. Much of the initial post-war building was undertaken by previous German prisoners of war. The majority of these were knocked down in the late-1960s when a big Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan "concrete" building and construction homes-- the Flowers' Estate-- was built to replace them, again with pre-fabricated residences, albeit of a superior style. The Lecaplan Type B form of pre-cast concrete (big panel concrete) terrace is created in rows of 8 properties to a style by J C Tilley and made 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 relaxed slowly from the late 90's however closed totally in 2004, when the last 150 jobs were lost. The majority of the 150 employees accepted transfers to various other Ford or secondary websites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was positioned along and also west of the train line, beside Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has actually now been developed into new housing estates, with road names after famous Ford automobiles in keeping with the websites history.
