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South Ockendon is a town and Church of England parish in the Thurrock district and unitary area in Essex in the East of England, United Kingdom. It is located on the border with Greater London, just outside the M25 motorway. The area to the north is North Ockendon. South Ockendon village became a place for prefabricated homes (prefabs) accommodating bombed-out homeowners of East London/West Essex in the very late 40s. Much of the initial post-war building was taken on by former German prisoners of war. Most of these were demolished in the late-1960s when a huge Greater London Council estate, Lecaplan “concrete” building and construction houses– the Flowers’ Estate– was constructed to change them, one more time with pre-fabricated homes, albeit of a remarkable style. The Lecaplan Type B form of pre-cast concrete (large panel concrete) balcony is built in rows of 8 buildings to a design by J C Tilley and also manufactured by W. & C. French. In the 1970s the Ford Motor Company factory at Aveley housed Ford’s Advanced Vehicle Operations which built autos such as the RS1600. The plant was wound down slowly from the late 90’s but closed totally in 2004, when the last 150 work were shed. The majority of the 150 workers accepted transfers to various other Ford or ancillary websites around Essex. The ‘Aveley’ plant was located along as well as west of the train line, beside Ockendon station in the Belhus Ward that part of Ockendon has now been become new real estate estates, with road names after popular Ford vehicles in keeping with the websites background.