Shefford
Shefford is a community and also civil church located in the Central Bedfordshire area of Bedfordshire, England. At the 2001 census it had a populace of 4,928, as well as was approximated to have grown to 5,770 by 2007. The population at the 2011 Census had risen to 5,881. In between 1868 as well as 1974 Shefford was the website of St Francis' Boy's Home (orphanage) that was situated over Street next to the Roman Catholic Church dedicated to St Francis of Assisi. The church stays in operation as a place of worship. The orphanage buildings, which are seen on the right of the picture, have actually been become apartments. The orphanage structures are one of the most enforcing in the community as well as date from the 1880s. Many files regarding the home can be discovered at the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives as well as Records Solution at District Hall in Bedford. There are Home Office and Department for Education Inspection Reports available that cover the duration from 1962 to 1969. Throughout The Second World War a whole Jewish children's neighborhood entered into remaining in Shefford as evacuees from Europe were billeted in and around the community as part of "Operation Pied Piper Tomorrow".
