South Ockendon
South Ockendon is a town and Church of England parish in the Thurrock district as well as unitary district in Essex in the East of England, UK. It is located on the boundary with Greater London, simply outside the M25 motorway. The area to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon town came to be a location for premade residences (prefabs) suiting bombed-out citizens of East London/West Essex in the really late 40s. Much of the original post-war building and construction was undertaken by previous German prisoners of war. Most of these were destroyed in the late-1960s when a large Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan "concrete" construction houses-- the Flowers' Estate-- was developed to change them, once more with pre-fabricated residences, albeit of a superior layout. The Lecaplan Kind B type of pre-cast concrete (big panel concrete) terrace is created in rows of eight residential or commercial properties to a design 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 developed vehicles such as the RS1600. The plant was unwinded progressively from the late 90's but closed totally in 2004, when the last 150 work were lost. Most of the 150 workers approved transfers to various other Ford or secondary websites around Essex. The 'Aveley' plant was positioned along and west of the train line, beside Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has actually currently been become new housing estates, with road names after renowned Ford cars in maintaining with the sites history.
