Shefford
Shefford is a town as well as civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 4,928, and was estimated to have grown to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had risen to 5,881. Between 1868 as well as 1974 Shefford was the site of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was located above Street alongside the Roman Catholic Church devoted to St Francis of Assisi. The church stays being used as a church. The orphanage buildings, which are seen on the right of the picture, have been developed into apartments. The orphanage structures are the most enforcing in the town as well as day from the 1880s. Many data regarding the home can be located at the Bedfordshire as well as Luton Archives and Records Solution at District Hall in Bedford. There are Office as well as Department for Education Inspection Reports offered that cover the duration from 1962 to 1969. Throughout World War II a whole Jewish kids's area entered remaining in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted around the town as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".