Shefford
Shefford is a town and also civil parish located in the Central Bedfordshire area of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a population of 4,928, and was approximated to have expanded to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had actually risen to 5,881. Between 1868 and 1974 Shefford was the website of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was situated on High Street alongside the Roman Catholic Church committed to St Francis of Assisi. The church remains in operation as a church. The orphanage structures, which are seen on the right of the picture, have actually been developed into apartments. The orphanage structures are the most enforcing in the town as well as day from the 1880s. Numerous data concerning the house can be found at the Bedfordshire and also Luton Archives and also Records Service at District Hall in Bedford. There are Office and Department for Education Inspection Reports offered that cover the duration from 1962 to 1969. During The Second World War an entire Jewish kids's area entered remaining in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted in and around the town as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".
