Kitchen (Supply-only) in South Ockendon

South Ockendon

South Ockendon is a small town as well as Church of England parish in the Thurrock borough and unitary district in Essex in the East of England, UK. It lies on the border with Greater London, just outside the M25 motorway. The location to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon town became a location for prefabricated residences (prefabs) suiting bombed-out citizens of East London/West Essex in the very late 40s. Much of the initial post-war building and construction was undertaken by former German prisoners of war. The majority 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 design. The Lecaplan Kind B kind of pre-cast concrete (large panel concrete) terrace is built in rows of 8 buildings to a style by J C Tilley and manufactured by W. & C. French. In the 1970s the Ford Motor Company factory at Aveley housed Ford's Advanced Vehicle Operations which built vehicles such as the RS1600. The plant was wound down gradually from the late 90's however closed totally in 2004, when the last 150 work were lost. The majority of the 150 workers accepted transfers to other Ford or supplementary sites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was positioned along as well as west of the railway line, beside Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has actually currently been become new real estate estates, with street names after famous Ford lorries in maintaining with the sites history.