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South Ockendon is a small town and also Church of England parish in the Thurrock district as well as unitary area in Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. It lies on the border with Greater London, just outside the M25 motorway. The area to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon town became a location for prefabricated houses (prefabs) suiting bombed-out citizens of East London/West Essex in the very late 40s. Much of the initial post-war construction was undertaken by previous German prisoners of war. The majority of these were knocked down in the late-1960s when a huge Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan “concrete” construction residences– the Flowers’ Estate– was developed to replace them, again with pre-fabricated residences, albeit of an exceptional style. The Lecaplan Type B kind of pre-cast concrete (big panel concrete) terrace is constructed in rows of eight properties to a layout by J C Tilley and made by W. & C. French. In the 1970s the Ford Motor Company factory at Aveley housed Ford’s Advanced Vehicle Operations which constructed autos such as the RS1600. The plant was wound down progressively from the late 90’s however closed completely in 2004, when the last 150 jobs were lost. Most of the 150 employees approved transfers to various other Ford or supplementary sites around Essex. The ‘Aveley’ plant was located along and also west of the train line, adjacent to Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has actually now been become new housing estates, with road names after famous Ford lorries in maintaining with the sites history.