South Ockendon
South Ockendon is a town and also Church of England parish in the Thurrock district and also unitary district in Essex in the East of England, UK. It lies on the boundary with Greater London, just outside the M25 motorway. The area to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon village ended up being an area for premade homes (prefabs) suiting bombed-out locals of East London/West Essex in the extremely late 40s. Much of the original post-war building was carried out by previous 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 homes-- the Flowers' Estate-- was built to change them, once more with pre-fabricated homes, albeit of a remarkable design. The Lecaplan Kind B kind of pre-cast concrete (large panel concrete) balcony is constructed in rows of 8 buildings to a layout by J C Tilley as well as manufactured by W. & C. French. In the 1970s the Ford Motor Company factory at Aveley housed Ford's Advanced Vehicle Operations which developed cars and trucks such as the RS1600. The plant was wound down gradually from the late 90's yet closed totally in 2004, when the last 150 work were shed. Most of the 150 workers accepted transfers to various other Ford or supplementary websites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was located along and west of the railway line, beside Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has actually currently been become new housing estates, with street names after popular Ford lorries in maintaining with the websites background.
