South Ockendon is a small town and Church of England parish in the Thurrock borough 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 came to be a location for premade residences (prefabs) accommodating bombed-out homeowners of East London/West Essex in the extremely late 40s. Much of the original post-war construction was taken on by former German prisoners of war. The majority of these were destroyed in the late-1960s when a large Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan "concrete" construction residences-- the Flowers' Estate-- was developed to change them, one more time with pre-fabricated residences, albeit of an exceptional layout. The Lecaplan Type B type of pre-cast concrete (huge panel concrete) balcony is constructed in rows of eight properties to a style by J C Tilley as well as 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 relaxed progressively from the late 90's yet closed entirely in 2004, when the last 150 tasks were lost. Most of the 150 workers approved transfers to other Ford or supplementary sites 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 now been turned into new housing estates, with road names after popular Ford lorries in maintaining with the sites history.