South Ockendon
South Ockendon is a village and also Church of England parish in the Thurrock district and 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 area to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon town became an area for premade homes (prefabs) accommodating bombed-out residents of East London/West Essex in the extremely late 40s. Much of the initial post-war building and construction was undertaken by former German prisoners of war. Most of these were demolished in the late-1960s when a big Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan "concrete" building and construction homes-- the Flowers' Estate-- was developed to change them, one more time with pre-fabricated homes, albeit of a premium layout. The Lecaplan Type B type of pre-cast concrete (big panel concrete) balcony is created in rows of eight homes to a style by J C Tilley and also made 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 gradually from the late 90's however shut entirely in 2004, when the last 150 work were shed. The majority of the 150 workers approved transfers to various other Ford or secondary sites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was situated along and west of the railway line, adjacent to Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has currently been developed into brand-new housing estates, with road names after popular Ford vehicles in maintaining with the sites background.
